Aspects
Thin
Thin is an EventMachine-based web server written in Ruby for running Rack-based web apps.
Unicorn
A unicorn is a magical weaponized HTTP server for Ruby.
Others
| Quality | Example |
|---|---|
| Faster |
"I m running unicorn which is about 40 faster than thin on celadon cedar" from question "Rails Performance Tuning for Production?" |
| Better performance |
"In production it is much better to use a more sophisticated server like phusion passenger or unicorn since they have better performance than thin mongrel or webrick" from question "How do you choose your HTTP server in Sinatra?" |
| Better choice |
"Jruby support - unicorn s a better choice than thin but it doesn t support jruby" from question "Thin vs Unicorn on Heroku" |