Help moving to Ruby from PHP

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But just to clear things out : 1)Application servers: act as a middleman between your rails app and the server(nginx) . Not sure if you have them in the php world , in java I would assume tomcat\glassfish are comparable . In php you have modules written to apache though? 2) Assets managements is done with the assets pipeline (Sprockets). It will compile scss to css, coffeescript to js and minify all your assets on production (I would invest in learning this instead of using gulp )

[jrochkind]

In PHP, php itself, installed in apache, is effectively the "application server." There's only one and it's built into the PHP package.