Ruby on Rails

> On Jul 26, 2017, at 1:35 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:
>
> Hassan:
>
> 1) Does Passenger dump that sensitive data in development?
>
> 2 How hard is it to remove Passenger? What are the downsides to removing it?

You have to replace it with *something* -- Unicorn, Puma, basically another app server. Rails won't do much besides talk to Rack, to reach the outside world, you need something that implements call() and writes out headers and body to stdout.

Walter

>
> Ralph
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:29:28 AM UTC-6, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <ral...@dos32.com> wrote:
> > I think Passenger is running
>
> Yep, looks like.
>
> > I've read overviews about Passenger ... but I still don't get what it does.
> > Does it sit between Apache (httpd) and Rails? What does it do that Apache
> > (httpd) doesn't do?
>
> Apache httpd handles different kinds of requests and responses
> through modules -- static file serving, directory listing, proxy via
> http, ajp, etc. Passenger provides a rack interface which is what
> Rails uses to talk to the outside world (and which is provided by
> webrick, puma, unicorn, thin, etc.).
>
> I'm not a Passenger fan after discovering that any startup error in
> production dumps a page full of sensitive data out for anyone to
> see, which seems utterly braindead...
>
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