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Re:I Smell Smoke - Rob Conery on Microsoft by rbranson on Monday June 21, 2010 @11:15PM (#1450808)
> Not every platform is as fucked-up as Rails ... mod_wsgi for Django (or any wsgi compliant Python framework) just works with no headaches.

erm... Phusion Passenger is the deployment platform of choice for Rails (Rack) applications. It's even easier than mod_wsgi.

Re:I Smell Smoke - Rob Conery on Microsoft by bad_user on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @08:38AM (#1451653)
Nice ... had no idea about Passenger. While working on a Rails project 2 years ago, had to wrestle with a Mongrel cluster and it wasn't nice.

Thanks for the tip,

Re:I Smell Smoke - Rob Conery on Microsoft by rbranson on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @11:44AM (#1452188)
Yes, it was admittedly a nightmare back then. Passenger is amazing.