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dg428
dg428

Reputation: 441

How does Rails + (Phusion Passenger|Puma|Unicorn|Thin) + (Nginx|Apache) work together?

When a http request is made, what is the role of the 3 different groups mentioned above? What do each of them do before the Application code is finally called?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1278

Answers (1)

Prakash Murthy
Prakash Murthy

Reputation: 13077

At the high-level, the three play the following roles:

Rails

Application. Encompasses the business logic - user management, buy / sell transactions, display / update / delete / create information, etc.

Passenger

Application Server. The server equivalent of running rails server locally.

Apache

Web/HTTP server. Intercepts and responds to requests from clients (browsers).

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/4113570/429758 for an in-depth treatment on this topic.

Upvotes: 2

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