My preferred solution is Waxx https://www.waxx.io - It is Ruby and very fast. Mostly functions, no classes. Deploy like this: waxx deploy stage or waxx deploy prod The deploy script can be as simple as: cd /path/to/folder && git pull && waxx migrate && waxx restart Disclaimer: I am the author of Waxx and I wrote it to be as simple as possible yet still high performance and flexible.
First time I've heard of it - how would you say it compares with Rails? Is there much of a community behind it?
There is not much community yet. It is pretty new. It is very different than Rails. It is more of an RPC/Rest system than an MVC system. In my testing on FreeBSD with Postgres it is close to 10x faster than Rails. It is a bit faster than Go and a bit slower than Node. It is quite simple to write and the code itself can be read in a few hours (at most). I'll be posting some sample apps this summer.