{"id":13,"date":"2008-01-05T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-01-05T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T16:28:26","slug":"thin-slimmer-and-faster-than-mongrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Thin: slimmer and faster than mongrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know <a href=\"http:\/\/mongrel.rubyforge.org\/\" title=\"mongrel.rubyforge.org\">mongrel<\/a> is the bees knees when it comes to serving Rails or <a href=\"http:\/\/merbivore.com\/\" title=\"merbivore.com\">Merb<\/a> apps, even if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zedshaw.com\/rants\/rails_is_a_ghetto.html\" title=\"zedshaw.com\">its creator had a meltdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a new kid on the block named <a href=\"http:\/\/code.macournoyer.com\/thin\/\" title=\"code.macournoyer.com\/thin\/\">thin<\/a> that claims to run Rails apps almost twice as fast as mongrel. Check the graph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/chart.png\" title=\"Thin vs mongrel vs webrick comparison chart\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/chart.png\" alt=\"Thin vs mongrel vs webrick comparison chart\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple &#8216;gem install thin&#8217; and going into your rails app and issuing &#8216;thin start&#8217; is enough to get you shedding weight.<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely something I&#8217;ll be playing with for the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know mongrel is the bees knees when it comes to serving Rails or Merb apps, even if its creator had a meltdown. But there is a new kid on the block named thin that claims to run Rails apps almost twice as fast as mongrel. Check the graph. A simple &#8216;gem install thin&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[37,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixmonkey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}