[LRUG] Low usage production server options?

[Jon Wood]

I've not used it myself, but I think there's even FCGI support for IIS
provided by Microsoft now. I'm afraid I don't have any URLs to back this
up, just remember it being mentioned somewhere.

Jon

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 16:28 +0000, Murray Steele wrote:
> Not to be a nay sayer, to everyone else, but running a rails app on
> Windows is certainly do-able.  One of our earliest rails apps here is
> deployed on a windows box and it's been fine (setting up ssh/svn keys
> to get the code onto it and the lack of being able to deploy with
> capistrano notwithstanding).  Sure, a unix solution is to be
> recommended, but that doesn't mean you can't do it on windows. 
> 
> If Simon has a windows box attached to the net, and he just wants to
> get his app up and running, and he's comfortable with windows admin in
> a way he's not with unix, then setting up a windows with ruby + apache
> + fcgi would probably be the shallowest learning curve for him. 
> 
> Once you know the app works, then you can look into 'real' hosting and
> tackle the problem of learning to administrate unix separately.
> 
> Muz 
> 
> On 09/01/2008, Tom Stuart <tom at experthuman.com> wrote:
>         On 9 Jan 2008, at 15:42, Simon Sebright wrote:
>         > Is there a particular distribution recommended for
>         ruby/rails?
>         > Preferrably one which is good for first-time users!
>         
>         Pretty much any Linux distribution will do the trick -- once
>         RubyGems 
>         is installed you're mostly there -- but Ubuntu is probably the
>         most
>         popular among Rails developers so that'd be your best bet from
>         a
>         Googling-for-answers standpoint.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         -Tom
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