How to use PHP in RAILS application

Sometimes it is necessary to integrate PHP code into existing rails application. Using open source and time-tested PHPBB3 is a good example.

To do that, simply disable Passenger for the directory of your PHP application.

      Alias /forum /var/.../forum
      <Location /forum>
        # This allows PHP.
        PassengerEnabled off
        DirectoryIndex index.php 
        allow from all
        Options +Indexes
      </Location>

Enjoy!

WEBrick is so slow! why?

WEBrick is doing a reverse DNS lookup on connecting IPs by default. In other words, it's trying to see if your IP address is associated with a domain name. This is unnecessary and takes too long, so you can disable it.

Open the file "l/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/config.rb" and locate the line with ":DoNotReverseLookup => nil".
Change nil to true.

Enjoy!