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Phusion Passenger 3.0.11 released

6 months ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby web applications. It has a strong focus on ease of use, stability and performance. Phusion...

Announcing EncryptedCookieStore plugin for Rails 2.3

~2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
EncryptedCookieStore is similar to Ruby on Rails’s CookieStore (it saves session data in a cookie), but it uses encryption so that people can’t read...

Phusion Passenger 2.2.12 released

almost 2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby on Rails web applications, and is mainly focused on ease of use and stability. Recent...

Phusion Passenger 2.2.14 released

almost 2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
Just hours after releasing 2.2.12 some changes have been made that would warrant a new release. And so we uploaded the 2.2.13 gem, but before we could post...

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2010.02 released

almost 2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
It has been a while since the last REE release. We apologize for not releasing earlier, it’s been very busy for us lately. Nonetheless, a number of important...

Does Rails Performance Need an Overhaul?

almost 2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
Igvita.com has recently published the article Rails Performance Needs an Overhaul. Rails performance… no, Ruby performance… no Rails scalability…...

Making Ruby threadable: properly handling context switching in native extensions

almost 2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
In the previous article Does Rails Performance Need an Overhaul? we had discussed the fact that proper Ruby threading is hindered by various broken native...

The Road to Passenger 3: Technology Preview 1 – Performance

almost 2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
This post has been moved: http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/06/10/the-road-to-passenger-3-technology-preview-1-performance-2/...

The Road to Passenger 3: Technology Preview 1 – Performance

almost 2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
It has already been two years since we’ve first released Phusion Passenger. Time sure flies and we’ve come a long way since then. We were the first...

The Road to Passenger 3: Technology Preview 2 – Stability, robustness, availability, self-healing

almost 2 years ago by Hongli Lai on Phusion Corporate Blog.
In Technology Preview 1 we’ve shown that Phusion Passenger 3 can be up to 55% faster on OS X. Performance is good and all, but it won’t do you any good...