Okay so yesterday I found a behavior problem with passenger (1.04) in that

request.env['PATH_INFO']

was nil, whereas under Mongrel it was being set as we were expecting to the current path. Within less than I guess 2 hours of reporting it on #passenger, code was put in place and committed to github.

Now how’s that for amazing work ? You’ve got to hand it to the boys over at the Passenger team. I sat back in my chair at that point and thought about the days before dealing with open source. I recall a dev team I was working with found a bug in number handling with .NET, what could they do ? For all the money paid in licensing fees etc ? Nothing. Just code around it.

Days like yesterday I really enjoy the open source community, it certainly has some major advantages. I still have a lot of testing to do before I’d happily switch a production app over to Passenger, but looking forward to the promise of better deployment that’s for sure!