Sometime your Rails application might appear to not work well with LiteSpeed. This may or may not the fault of our ruby-lsapi module. Almost always, it's a problem on the application/configuration end. Before we look into the problem, you need to find out exactly what is the root cause of the problem.
To debug a live ruby process, please have a look Here (archive).
Common problems and solutions: * More and more ruby processes spawn, hang, and does nothing.
This can be caused by a search query using the ruby-google module. Both http-access and http-access2 can get stuck waiting 'forever' for a google.com (or anywhere) for a response. The solution was to wrap it, or any operations that can block Ruby, in a Timeout::timeout(5) do() clause.