[Rails] Does each ip request to a ruby on rails application on a server spawn a new ruby process?

When I view the output of the top command on ubuntu, I notice sometimes there is 6 ruby processes. When are each of these processes spawned? http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2i24rwhs=5 I cannot imagine that it's every time someone loads the rails application from a different ip address,

Re: [Rails] Does each ip request to a ruby on rails application on a server spawn a new ruby process?

On Jul 10, 2013, at 9:35 AM, John Merlino stoici...@aol.com wrote: When I view the output of the top command on ubuntu, I notice sometimes there is 6 ruby processes. When are each of these processes spawned? http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2i24rwhs=5 I cannot imagine that it's every