I noticed that Passenger 2.0.1 became available today and I decided to upgrade a couple of my Rails sites which are using it. The process was painless but there are some configuration changes to note when upgrading from 1.0.x. So here are the steps I took.

Update: I’d also like to confirm that fair load balancing is working properly with Passenger. This is a feature that I have wanted for some time and I’m glad to see it working.

I’m fairly busy working on a couple of Rails applications. Here are some notes I’ve jotted down in the past few days.

• So there was a security advisory about Ruby that has led to some discussion about the nature of the problems (1, 2). The Phusion folks have offered Ruby Enterprise Edition as a solution to these vulnerabilities by backporting the fixes. I haven’t followed the Debian and Ubuntu package maintainers but I’m interested to see what they come up with.