Comments on: Ruby on Rails on Windows http://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/ The thoughts of an Interface Engineer trying to find his way Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:06:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: james http://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-10 james Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:06:25 +0000 https://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-10 Hi, I have recently taken a new job in a corporation that is IT-challenged. We have several different RDBMS, including Oracle and SQLserver, so I find myself using Access to "universally" query data via ODBC. Basically, I need to serve data to Hi,

I have recently taken a new job in a corporation that is IT-challenged. We have several different RDBMS, including Oracle and SQLserver, so I find myself using Access to “universally” query data via ODBC. Basically, I need to serve data to

]]> By: hillemania http://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-8 hillemania Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:24:36 +0000 https://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-8 Wow, Thanks so much for the information, now I've got so much more stuff to try. This is exactly what I was looking for. Wow,
Thanks so much for the information, now I’ve got so much more stuff to try. This is exactly what I was looking for.

]]> By: David Sissitka http://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-7 David Sissitka Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:01:17 +0000 https://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-7 For production, proxying to Mongrel from Apache, LightTPD, or LiteSpeed (My preference.) has quickly become the deployment environment of choice for a lot of Rails developers. It's as effecient as FastCGI with a fraction of the problems. It's not so hot at serving static content, so use Apache, LightTPD, or LiteSpeed to serve the static content. With Apache you can get by with a little bit of ModRewrite trickery, and using LiteSpeed it's as easy as setting a static content for the relevant content in the public directory. As for load balancing, you can either run multiple instances of Mongrel or use mongrel_cluster (See: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/mongrel_cluster.html). In either situation you would proxy to the instances of Mongrel or mongrel_cluster, which is pretty straight forward. If it means anything Rick Olson, the man behind acts_as_versioned and Mephisto (See: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com), is rocking the LiteSpeed and mongrel_cluster combination. For production, proxying to Mongrel from Apache, LightTPD, or LiteSpeed (My preference.) has quickly become the deployment environment of choice for a lot of Rails developers. It’s as effecient as FastCGI with a fraction of the problems. It’s not so hot at serving static content, so use Apache, LightTPD, or LiteSpeed to serve the static content. With Apache you can get by with a little bit of ModRewrite trickery, and using LiteSpeed it’s as easy as setting a static content for the relevant content in the public directory. As for load balancing, you can either run multiple instances of Mongrel or use mongrel_cluster (See: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/mongrel_cluster.html). In either situation you would proxy to the instances of Mongrel or mongrel_cluster, which is pretty straight forward. If it means anything Rick Olson, the man behind acts_as_versioned and Mephisto (See: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com), is rocking the LiteSpeed and mongrel_cluster combination.

]]> By: hillemania http://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-6 hillemania Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:39:31 +0000 https://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-6 You must have read this before I got me next post up. I stumbled across that solution within minutes of my post. Do you have any insight on how robust it is. Can I do multiple virtual hosts, and is it meant for production or just development? You must have read this before I got me next post up. I stumbled across that solution within minutes of my post.

Do you have any insight on how robust it is. Can I do multiple virtual hosts, and is it meant for production or just development?

]]> By: David Sissitka http://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-5 David Sissitka Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:27:22 +0000 https://hillemania.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/ruby-on-rails-on-windows/#comment-5 Have you considered using Mongrel? If not, Mongrel, MySQL, Rails, and Ruby can be set up within 10 minutes. Mongrel - gem install mongrel MySQL - http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ Ruby - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/ Rails - gem install rails --include-dependencies No configuration, just "mongrel_rails start" from an application's root directory (Same place you'd do a "ruby script/server".) and you're good to go. Have you considered using Mongrel? If not, Mongrel, MySQL, Rails, and Ruby can be set up within 10 minutes.

Mongrel – gem install mongrel
MySQL – http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
Ruby – http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
Rails – gem install rails –include-dependencies

No configuration, just “mongrel_rails start” from an application’s root directory (Same place you’d do a “ruby script/server”.) and you’re good to go.

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