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Rails developers can draw from a huge pool of libraries to build their applications. Dozens of options are available just for templating: do you use ERB, HAML, SASS, or do you prefer a JavaScript approach with Backbone.js or Knockout.js? The possibilities are endless, so we want to find out what our readers are using, or planning to use in the future.
In a first step (RFP), we asked you for suggestions. We received many answers, and now start with a first question about deployment & management. On the x-axis, you can show us what you’re using right now, or what you’ve moved away from and what you plan to adopt next. The y-axis indicates how valuable you think the specific technology or library is.
Here are the options:
- Apache + Passenger: also known as mod_rails, fast and easy to install
- Capistrano: running commands in parallel on multiple servers
- Chef: infrastructure automation for your servers
- Heroku: the cloud application platform
- Lighttpd: the lightweight web server alternative
- logstash: log and event management
- Mongrel: the web server written in Ruby
- Nagios: infrastructure monitoring
- Nginx: high performance web server and proxy
- Thin: fast and simple Ruby web server
- Torquebox: Ruby application platform built on JBoss and JRuby
- Trinidad: running your Rails or Rack applications on Tomcat
- Unicorn: the Unix friendly HTTP server for fast clients