Phusion Passenger (informally also known as mod_rails and mod_rack among the Ruby community) is a

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and

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with support for

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and

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. It is designed to integrate into the

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or the

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web server, but also has a mode for running standalone without an external web server. Phusion Passenger supports

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operating systems, and is available as a gem package, as a tarball, or as native Linux packages. As of Aug 2021 more than 130,000 web sites use Phusion Passenger. Originally designed for web applications built on the

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framework, it was later extended to support arbitrary Ruby web frameworks through the Rack interface. Later versions also added support for Python through the WSGI interface, as well as support for Node.js. In 2012, Phusion announce
Phusion Passenger Enterprise
a paid, commercial variant of Phusion Passenger with "a wide array of premium features". Phusion has stated that the open source variant will continue to be developed and maintained along with the Enterprise variant. Phusion Passenger was the "preferred deployment setup" for Ruby on Rails applications in 2016, and has been recommended by the Ruby on Rails authors in 2009. In 2013, in combination with Ruby 2.0, or with the now-discontinue
Ruby Enterprise Edition
Phusion Passenger claimed that it was capable of reducing Rails's memory consumption by 33% as well as increasing its performance.

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Phusion Passenger Enterprise
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Rack

Ruby Enterprise Edition
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Free software programmed in Ruby Free software programmed in C++ Software using the MIT license Web server software for Linux

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