http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/archive/2009/02/24/iis7-5-server-farms-and-ruby.aspx(Caution: Ruby application names are as prolific, esoteric and funny as Microsoft code names) The previous post (broadly) demonstrated how to use a combination of URL Rewrite and FastCGI to put a Ruby on Rails application on IIS7.5 . As Rails , Merb (en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/archive/2009/02/24/iis7-5-server-farms-and-ruby.aspx#9689172Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:26:28 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9689172StoreCrowd<p>How do you find the performance of Rails on IIS in comparison to Apache or Nginx? Are their any advantages or limitations?</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>Stuart</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/archive/2009/02/24/iis7-5-server-farms-and-ruby.aspx#9697497Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:53:22 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9697497nhodge<p>Stuart</p> <p>Microsoft is doing more performance related work with PHP at the moment.</p> <p>However, anecdotally, I've heard that IIS/Windows is not too bad with Ruby. Then again, it's probably best to do your own testing (grab a trial version of Windows Server 2008)</p> <p>Another alternative is to pop IIS7 with ARR in front of a Linux box.</p> <p>Just some thoughts</p> <p>Nick</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/archive/2009/02/24/iis7-5-server-farms-and-ruby.aspx#9702669Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:57:55 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9702669nhodge<p>Interestingly, other sources have Ruby on Windows slower than Unix based systems</p> <p>(see <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/920201/why-is-ruby-so-much-slower-on-windows">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/920201/why-is-ruby-so-much-slower-on-windows</a>)</p> <p>Which is sad</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/archive/2009/02/24/iis7-5-server-farms-and-ruby.aspx#9750186Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:30:22 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9750186storecrowd<p>Thanks for the reply Nick, looks like we're going with Nginx on Linux.</p> <p>Cheers!</p> <p>Stuart</p>