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by Tobias Luetke.
Original Post: Should I consider lighttpd?
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Feed Description: Read the announcement: CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Baby!CD Baby is going rails. This is huge! If you don’t know CD Baby, its a distribution site with over 80.000 musicians under contract and its one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. Read all about it here. What is even more exciting about it is that I’m on board for the rewrite and I had chance to talk to Derek on the phone directly for a consulting session which might have played its little part in the decision to go with rails. Come monday I’ll work together with him and other rails contributor Jeremy Kemper to help crunch those 90k lines of PHP in beautifully compact code for which Rails and Ruby are known. Here is a quote from Derek’s announcement on his weblog: Like a lost soul walkin’ the earth, lookin’ for spirituality, that stumbles upon the right church with the right people at the right time, I’ve found my niche with Ruby. Its little itty-bitty community attracts some brilliant “think different” types with a love for beautiful code that do this for love, not money.
Jason Hoffman of TextDrive fame posted a great little essay on lighttpd. What is even better is that he mentions that they are using Hieraki for their internal documentation.
Lighttpd seems to be all the rage lately, Its a blazingly fast web server which is also easy to setup and comes with all the features a modern apache setup would have build in.
I have been evaluating it for a while and so has david who is looking to transfer basecamp and tadalist.
On a related note: The next version of rails will contain a new Routing sub system which will overtake the job of mod_rewrite. This means that you will be able to use any web server under the stars with rails come 0.9.6!
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