Five things I like about WebROaR
Posted by Sam
WebROaR was announced a couple of days ago but somehow I missed the announcement. The more I look it over the more I like it so I thought I'd put together a list of five things I really like about it.
- Deploying a new application or taking down an application doesn't require a server restart. This is important when you have many apps running because it takes a while to fire those applications up again.
- Integrated stats! This is similar to what you get with New Relic.
- Exception tracking built into the app server! No longer do you need to remember to use ExceptionNotifier or other such plugins.
- Minimum workers! No longer do you have to wait 15 seconds for your app to load because the app server unloaded your site due to inactivity. I hear this is coming Phusion 3 but this is important for sites that aren't terribly busy.
- The admin interface!
And now for three things I'd like them to add.
- Multiple users. It looks like you could manually add users to a file but it should be doable through the admin interface as well.
- Restful interface. Call me picky but I'd like to see a RESTful interface for sites, users, stats, etc...
- iPhone interface. I know we don't NEED an iPhone interface but it would be nice, especially for those of us still on the Edge network.
Overall I really like where they are going with it. If they continue down the road they are heading down I think they'll have one of the best app servers for any language. Peaking at their code though it looks like they've got a ways to go, but for an initial release I definitely like where their head's at.
Tags: rubyonrails webroar
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