Phusion Corporate Blog

Passenger Preference Pane provides a convenient GUI for OSX users to deploy their webapps with Phusion Passenger. However, some updates in Mac OS X Snow Leopard caused Passenger Preference Pane to stop working correctly. Thankfully, Alloy was quick to address these. Go check it out.

Because of an issue with our (now former) hosting provider, our blog and several of our websites had been down for more than a day. We were able to restore the blog posts, but unfortunately we lost several weeks worth of blog comments.

Our apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Just in case you haven’t noticed yet, http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/ is now running Phusion Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition. We migrated them a few days ago, and other than a MySQL failure yesterday, it had been rock solid ever since. People have complained about wiki.rubyonrails.org being down often, but the uptime should be a lot better now.

Man, hardest talk ever, glad it went okay, now I can head off to bed… soon
For those of you guys that didn’t have the chance to attend Ruby en Rails 2008, we’ve taken the liberty of uploading our presentation files.

PDF Version
SWF Version (with toned down animations)

Getting back to Charles Nutter’s talk now

Today, we were invited by Laurent Sansonetti of Apple to visit them over there. Needless to say, IT, WAS, AWESOME! Laurent is an awesome guy, and we had a lot of fun hanging out with him and Thomas, so if you’re reading this, we’re looking forward to meeting up with you guys soon again!

Pictures probably say more than words, so see below.

More to come in the following days, as we’re currently heading off to bed.

Cheers,
Hongli Lai
Tinco Andringa
Ninh Bui

P.S. Yes, I’m aware of the fact that the thumbs up thing is going to become my trademark Just be happy that you haven’t seen a thumbs down yet

Hi guys (and girls),

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably gotten the lowdown on Phusion Passenger being used by Dreamhost. Needless to say, we’re thrilled about the number of people now being able to painlessly deploy their applications using Phusion Passenger. However, we’d like to take this opportunity to clear a few things up.

Firstly, we’ve received a lot of questions of you guys on if Dreamhost is sponsoring the development of Passenger or have financially compensated us for the support that we’ve provided. The answer to this question is no, instead, they’ve done something that we believe was just as important for us as developers: test our product in a large, live shared hosting environment. Fortunately, you guys seem to have been more than favorable in testing Phusion Passenger and through your feedback, allowed us to streamline our solution to deployment even more. Thank you for this!

Secondly, we’d like to reiterate that the support forums of Phusion Passenger are SOLELY for Phusion Passenger. We’ve received a fair amount of questions that were related to Dreamhost as well, and we’d like to kindly redirect those people to Dreamhost’s support department.

By now, you should have probably already inferred that commercial support isn’t something that is going to ensure Phusion Passenger’s future development alone as it seems little to no support is required for a product that is pretty much self explanatory and which already enjoys excellent community support: hmmm, maybe we should remove the forums and installer in a future version

All kidding aside though, what is going to ensure Phusion Passenger’s future development is the people who develop and use it, both of which you guys can help out with by donating time and effort. From this, it should become apparent that we’re grateful for any kind of donation you can come up with in supporting Phusion Passenger. This includes feedback, patches and of course, monetary donations (but only do this if you think the product is worth it).

The latter perhaps requires a little bit more elaboration. A common misconception seems to be that open source is entirely “free of charge”, but we think this only holds true for someone if he or she decides it should be so. Open source is being paid for in terms of time and effort, and from our side, as a company, that translates to allocating human resources for development and support. Needless to say, this also translates to finances and we’ve done a fair amount of this in the past and will continue to do so in the future, but are also dependent of your efforts in this as well!

Thanks for the love people!

Cheers,
Hongli Lai
Ninh Bui

Dreamhost is now officially on Phusion Passenger or as some people have put it, “Rails escapes the Ghetto”.

Please help us with modding/digging these up.

• Passenger makes Rails easy, scalable! Dreamhost confirms!
• Rails Escapes The Ghetto
• Rails Escapes the Ghetto, Phusion Passenger now used on Dreamhost

Silkscreen printed on 210 grams super premium shirts… only 60 of 100 left people! More info about acquiring one of these bad boys will follow soon

AkitaOnRails had recently interviewed us. The interview covers our company’s background and information about Passenger, among other things. He asked us quite some interesting questions, so we recommend you to read the interview.