I've been wanting to move a few of my low traffic client sites over to mod_rails/Phusion Passenger for several months now, but I worried about the hassles of switching platforms. I finally decided to go ahead with it earlier this week.

The process turned out to be far simpler than I had imagined. The Phusion guys have done an excellent job with packaging their code for developer usability. The Apache module installed automatically, without a hitch, and without damaging any configuration on my production machine. Even custom-compiling and installing Ruby Enterprise Edition was simple and quick.

I think the whole process of installing mod_rails, RubyEE, and migrating the DNS for the site took less than an hour. I fully expected to take a day or more for this transition.