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Is there any advantage to using WEBrick in development mode for Rails?

I develop on a Mac, and I'm pretty comfortable setting up an Ubuntu VM with Apache installed, so "you don't need to install Apache" is not really a reason. I run Ruby from the VM anyway, so there doesn't seem to be much difference in system resources needed.

In my head, the advantage of using Apache is that it's going to perform more consistently with my production server.

So what reasons are there to use WEBrick? Does it make development easier somehow?

Solution

  • I'd go for phusion passenger + passsenger pref pane: http://www.fngtps.com/2008/06/putting-the-pane-back-into-deployment

    Awesomeness. This way I can act more like the production server and take it easy when adding new projects etc.