Since my initial experiments with GridFS and nginx-gridfs, I discovered a rather downer of a dealbreaker: compiling Passenger and nginx-gridfs into the same nginx binary makes nginx very unhappy. It hard-freezes (as in, blocks forever) when you request a GridFS file with Passenger enabled. Oops.

So, I sat down and fixed gridfs-fuse. You can grab my branch at GitHub. I made a few changes that make it ideal for serving files out of a GridFS DB, with a few caveats.
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