Slow initial server startup when using Phusion Passenger and Rails

Question

To jump on the band-wagon of Phusion Passenger we\'ve setup a staging server for a small rails app to test things out.

So far it has been very nice to use, it makes

Answer 1

Just incase there are any nginx server users stumbling upon this question, both the 'PassengerMaxRequests' and 'PassengerStatThrottleRate' directives don't translate to nginx. However the others do:

rails_spawn_method smart;
rails_app_spawner_idle_time 0;
rails_framework_spawner_idle_time 0;
passenger_pool_idle_time 1000;

HTH!

EDIT rails_spawn_method is deprecated in passenger 3 instead use

passenger_spawn_method smart; 

everything else is just good till date.