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

You can also use PassengerMinInstances:

http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#PassengerMinInstances

This can be combined with PassengerPreStart