Ruby on rails, finally doing it

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December 31st, 2006, 02:35 AM

misterdanny

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Ruby on rails, finally doing it

i've been following this introductory guide for ruby on rails

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html?page=2

ive been going along nicely i feel like i know what im doing,

I'm just curious about how i can have it integrate with my apache server (which is currently hooked for doing php development)

id like to not have to run 2 servers as it seems kind of funny.

the only issue i could see is ive been following the guide and putting my stuff inside c:\rails

all of my php stuff is inside c:\www

and c:\www is my web root directory, i guess i need to create a different port on apache that goes to the directory root that the ruby on rails webserver is going to (which im not very sure where it goes actually)

i dont know if this is more of an apache question or what

edit:

i nosed around and found this

http://api.rubyonrails.org/

Quote:

Rails uses the built-in web server in Ruby called WEBrick by default, so you don’t have to install or configure anything to play around.

If you have lighttpd installed, though, it’ll be used instead when running script/server. It’s considerably faster than WEBrick and suited for production use, but requires additional installation and currently only works well on OS X/Unix (Windows users are encouraged to start with WEBrick). We recommend version 1.4.11 and higher. You can download it from www.lighttpd.net.

If you want something that’s halfway between WEBrick and lighttpd, we heartily recommend Mongrel. It’s a Ruby-based web server with a C-component (so it requires compilation) that also works very well with Windows. See more at mongrel.rubyforge.org/.

But of course its also possible to run Rails with the premiere open source web server Apache. To get decent performance, though, you’ll need to install FastCGI. For Apache 1.3, you want to use mod_fastcgi. For Apache 2.0+, you want to use mod_fcgid.

See wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/FastCGI for more information on FastCGI.

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the tone of that paragraph is that it wont run too cool on apache and i should use lighthttpd.

will fastcgi help too much?

the final server if i do develope a pretty cool ruby thing will be on a 256 megabyte VPS.

any recomendations as far as that?

Last edited by misterdanny : December 31st, 2006 at 03:00 AM.

January 5th, 2007, 02:39 AM

xmitchx

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FastCGI with Apache works fine if you want to use Apache. I am on dreamhost currently and it runs well. I've never setup FCGI w/ Apache though so I can't help you there, sorry.

I just wanted to assure you fcgi with apache is fine.

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