This morning I moved The Oryoki Blog (which is powered by Mephisto) off of Mongrel and on to Passenger (mod_rails)—the new Rails Apache module by the guys over at Phusion. Passenger makes deploying Rails applications as easy as dropping files into a web directory and removes the burden of configuring FastCGI and Mongrel with Apache. What this ultimately means is that Rails applications (like Oryoki) now become much easier to deploy and in tern will now be accessible to a larger audience. And that’s really the ultimate goal, making Oryoki (and free educational material) available to as many people as possible. Sweet.