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Last active August 2, 2016 04:31
Neocities' Rainbows! config file - https://neocities.org
# This is Neocities' Rainbows! config file. We are using this in production to run all our web apps.
# It works really well for us and has been heavily load tested, so I wanted to share it with the community.
#
# In my opinion, this is the best way to deploy a ruby web application. Unlike EventMachine based solutions,
# it uses real ruby threads, which allows it to take advantage of the internal non-blocking IO pattern
# in MRI.
#
# Contrary to popular belief, MRI doesn't block execution to wait on IO when you are using threads, even
# with the GIL. The requests are done concurrently for anything that is based on the IO class. This
# includes things like Net::HTTP and even `system commands`. Grep the MRI Ruby source code for