The Passenger™ Masterplan 7 Dec 08

As you’ve probably seen, we’ve been providing Ubuntu packages for Phusion Passenger for some time now (since May, in fact) and have managed to get them accepted into the official Ubuntu repositories already. The inevitable question that’s cropped up recently though (especially with the attention received by the Phusion guys in recent weeks) is “when will you be supporting Passenger?”. That’s something I’m going to address right now…

The quick answer is (stop press) within the next few weeks. Read on for the longer version :)

There are a couple of things we need to do before “officially” supporting Passenger on Brightbox…

1. We need to complete the packaging of Ruby Enterprise Edition for Ubuntu Hardy (which John is working on right now)
2. We need to update the Brightbox gem to support deployment and management with Passenger – as well as Apache/Mongrel and Nginx/Mongrel (which it will continue to do).

Neither of these are particulary mammoth tasks, but we do have a lot of internal projects going on at the same time such as improving the control panel (watch this space) as well as the day-to-day work of running a hosting company and managing clusters for some very large customers [plug].

Stay tuned over the next few weeks as we announce Passenger support together with a very special discount offer!

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