V8CGI is a very thin Apache module encapsulating V8 - Google's JavaScript engine that's used e.g. in Google Chrome. Those concerned with NodeJS stability may consider V8CGI a better choice, thanks to stability provided by Apache base. A short while ago, on DevMeetings.pl DevCamp we've been playing with V8CGI, RingoJS and Node. Thanks to good performance , intuitive and high quality APIs , V8CGI turned out to be the black horse of the whole event, although installing it on Macs was little tricky. Readers with Windows and Linux should follow to V8CGI home page , where they can get precompiled Windows binary and learn how to install binary on Ubuntu . Mac users, let's open terminal and try to build the V8 apache module ourselves. Getting V8CGI to work is four steps: 1. Getting the source code 2. Building it 3. Configuration 4. Test drive 1. Getting the source code When checking out sources from SVN, we actually need two packages V8 and V8CGI: a) svn checkout http://v8cgi