Thin vs. unicorn for development mode on Mac?

ruby-on-rails-3 development-environment thin unicorn
Jay Levitt picture Jay Levitt · Jul 7, 2011 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I'm shocked that this question hasn't been asked already, but I swear I looked everywhere. Are there advantages of thin over unicorn, or vice versa, when running Rails 3 in development mode?

Answer

Peter Andersen picture Peter Andersen · Jul 9, 2011

I decided to go with Thin for development because Heroku runs my apps on Thin in production.

It's always a good practice to make your dev ENV match your production ENV as much as possible.

Here's a couple breakdowns of Thin vs. Unicorn, although they're a little old.

http://snaprails.tumblr.com/post/441654760/thin-vs-unicorn-performance-benchmark

http://cmelbye.github.com/2009/10/04/thin-vs-unicorn.html

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