Comments on: Diamond in the rough: Installing Ruby on Rails with IIS http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:20:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jenn Weller http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-1060 Jenn Weller Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:25:41 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-1060 I would also recommend our white papers, they are a great way of starting up with Ruby Setup: http://www.techcfl.com/ror/white-papers Hope it helps. Jenn I would also recommend our white papers, they are a great way of starting up with Ruby Setup: http://www.techcfl.com/ror/white-papers

Hope it helps.

Jenn

]]> By: anon http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-679 anon Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:29:16 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-679 Hi Team, I hope the following is useful for getting Ruby on Rails running on IIS. http://made-of-stone.blogspot.com/2006/01/rails-on-iis-revisited.html Looks like the team there have had some success Hi Team,

I hope the following is useful for getting Ruby on Rails running on IIS.
http://made-of-stone.blogspot.com/2006/01/rails-on-iis-revisited.html
Looks like the team there have had some success

]]> By: Peter Boling http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Peter Boling Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:25:04 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-678 I am at the same point as Randy and Ben and have found little 'recent' how to's that can help me out. I must get it working with IIS though, because I need SSO and the ability to access the AUTH_USER server variable... I may post back with success if I am ever successful. I am at the same point as Randy and Ben and have found little ‘recent’ how to’s that can help me out. I must get it working with IIS though, because I need SSO and the ability to access the AUTH_USER server variable… I may post back with success if I am ever successful.

]]> By: ben http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-677 ben Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:22:15 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-677 Randy, I wish I could help you out, but I never got it working quite right, and its been several months since I was messing with it :) I got to about the same point you did though, I could see the session files, but got that useless error message. Randy, I wish I could help you out, but I never got it working quite right, and its been several months since I was messing with it :)

I got to about the same point you did though, I could see the session files, but got that useless error message.

]]> By: Randy http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Randy Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:40:45 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-676 Yep, I had the same exact problem. "Server Error, unable to connect to fastcgi server.". I'm getting Ruby session files showing up in my temp directory; so I don't think it's permissions on the temp directory that's causing it. Hmmm... don't know. Any ideas? Yep, I had the same exact problem. “Server Error, unable to connect to fastcgi server.”.

I’m getting Ruby session files showing up in my temp directory; so I don’t think it’s permissions on the temp directory that’s causing it. Hmmm… don’t know. Any ideas?

]]> By: Baz http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-675 Baz Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:39:18 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-675 An alpha release of the reverse proxy is available ... it's not a full install but significantly easier than setting up FastCGI. Nowhere near production quality though. An alpha release of the reverse proxy is available … it’s not a full install but significantly easier than setting up FastCGI. Nowhere near production quality though.

]]> By: breichelt http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-674 breichelt Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:50:36 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-674 Justin, I saw the InstantRails project, I havent had a chance to try it out, but it seems odd. How can it run a web server and a db server without touching my environment? Baz, thanks for the comment, I look forward to an installer. I will take another look at my setup and see if I can iron out the issues. Justin, I saw the InstantRails project, I havent had a chance to try it out, but it seems odd. How can it run a web server and a db server without touching my environment?

Baz, thanks for the comment, I look forward to an installer. I will take another look at my setup and see if I can iron out the issues.

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-673 Anonymous Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:15:12 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-673 I wrote the tutorial you linked to - I occasionally got an "unable to connect to FastCGI server" when setting things up - it meant that FastCGI could not start Ruby and so terminated. That tended to be because the wrong parameters were being passed to Ruby (or, as I mentioned in the article, the session files were being produced in the wrong place). I'm also working on an all-in-one installer - the first version will install your application with WEBrick as a Windows Service and ought to be ready for its first release in about a week. The next version will (hopefully) do a FastCGI IIS installation but that one depends upon one of my customers asking for it ... I wrote the tutorial you linked to – I occasionally got an “unable to connect to FastCGI server” when setting things up – it meant that FastCGI could not start Ruby and so terminated. That tended to be because the wrong parameters were being passed to Ruby (or, as I mentioned in the article, the session files were being produced in the wrong place).

I’m also working on an all-in-one installer – the first version will install your application with WEBrick as a Windows Service and ought to be ready for its first release in about a week. The next version will (hopefully) do a FastCGI IIS installation but that one depends upon one of my customers asking for it …

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-672 Anonymous Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:30:04 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-672 You may want to take a look at InstantRails: http://rubyforge.org/projects/instantrails/ Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment. You may want to take a look at InstantRails:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/instantrails/

Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-671 Anonymous Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:27:07 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/21/diamond-in-the-rough-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-iis/#comment-671 I see... well, that's basically how Apache w/ FastCGI works anyways. You'll have generally 4 or 5 fcgi processes spawn for each site. That's what DHH means when he talks about "easy scaling" since rails apps under fcgi already operate "clustered". But if you want 'em public, I don't know that I'd trust Webrick from a security perspective. I don't know that it's insecure, but I don't know that it's stood up to any sort of formal testing either. So anyways, you're probably on the right track there... Apache on Windows is really your best bet if you don't have a *nix available. LightTPD if you do. Or you could just not worry about it, and host with TextDrive or PlanetArgon. I host with TD and like 'em... the plans are reasonable, the SSH access is nice. The support turnaround is quick. They aren't too stable though. I find myself having to start my LightTPD server at least once a week and my cron job doesn't seem to run as scheduled. So that's definitely frustrating. If I had to do it again I'd probably go with PlanetArgon. I see… well, that’s basically how Apache w/ FastCGI works anyways. You’ll have generally 4 or 5 fcgi processes spawn for each site. That’s what DHH means when he talks about “easy scaling” since rails apps under fcgi already operate “clustered”.

But if you want ‘em public, I don’t know that I’d trust Webrick from a security perspective. I don’t know that it’s insecure, but I don’t know that it’s stood up to any sort of formal testing either. So anyways, you’re probably on the right track there… Apache on Windows is really your best bet if you don’t have a *nix available. LightTPD if you do.

Or you could just not worry about it, and host with TextDrive or PlanetArgon. I host with TD and like ‘em… the plans are reasonable, the SSH access is nice. The support turnaround is quick. They aren’t too stable though. I find myself having to start my LightTPD server at least once a week and my cron job doesn’t seem to run as scheduled. So that’s definitely frustrating. If I had to do it again I’d probably go with PlanetArgon.

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