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= Frequently Asked Questions about \Rainbows!

=== Why is \Rainbows! a separate project from Unicorn?

\Rainbows is for the odd, corner-case requests that Unicorn is poorly
suited for.  More scalable concurrency models introduce additional
complexity that Unicorn users and developers are uncomfortable with for
the common cases.


=== What complexity?  Threads/events/actors are easy to work with!

Good for you.  Some of us depend on libraries incompatible with those
models, or are just too lazy to deal with them for the majority of
requests we service.


=== Isn't "rainbows" a branch of Unicorn?

That functionality is now in the Revactor model of \Rainbows!


=== What happened to the "gossamer" branch of Unicorn?

It became the ThreadPool model of \Rainbows!


=== Which concurrency model should I use?

It depends on your application, libraries, Ruby stack and use cases.
That's why we support as many concurrency model as we can.  Each model
has their own strengths and weaknesses in terms of maturity,
ease-of-debugging, compatibility, performance, and memory usage.


=== Should I put \Rainbows! behind nginx to serve slow clients?

It is optional.  You can still use nginx to route certain requests to
Unicorn and others to \Rainbows!  nginx will always outperform
\Rainbows! in both pure reverse proxy applications and for serving
static files,  but \Rainbows! is for hosting applications that are more
easily-implemented in Ruby than C.


=== Should I use \Rainbows! to serve static files?

It depends on the size and amount of static files you're serving.  If
you're serving a lot of static files (especially large ones), then by
all means use nginx.  If not, then \Rainbows! is likely a "good enough"
solution even if nginx will always outperform it in raw throughput.

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rainbows-0.5.0	FAQ
rainbows-0.4.0	FAQ
rainbows-0.3.0	FAQ
rainbows-0.2.0	FAQ
rainbows-0.1.1	FAQ
rainbows-0.1.0	FAQ