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Why does FastCGI not work well with Ruby on Rails?

It is said that FastCGI doesn't work well with Ruby on Rails deployment. Why is that? In previous experience, something either works quite well or it might be fundamentally wrong. So if FastCGI is a viable solution, why is it not reliable with RoR? Does FastCGI work well with most any language / frameworks? ...

Maximum SQL Queries per page

This question probably has no definite answer, so if it's considered subjective and, let's say bad, please feel free to close it. Basically I am developing a pretty big web application (PHP), and it uses CakePHP. Right now it's under development and some things in the Database are really complex therefore lots of queries need to be made...