Topic: Rails development: mod_ruby or any other advice?

[liquid986]

Hello Folks,

I'm quite new to Apache configuration and interpreter definitions. I'm planning to make a new site built on Ruby On Rails.

I have used Mongrel HTTP server (built on Ruby) but it's not recommended in real environment (it has scaling problems), so i decided to switch to Apache.

First I tried to get a working copy of mod_fastcgi for Apache 2.2.3, but no one seemed to work, so i have downloaded and installed mod_fcgid (v2-win32) what I have found on Apache Lounge:

It seems to work, the Apache service hopefully starts now. (Huhh... )

Does somebody have experiences with Rails and Apache? Some sites say that mod_ruby works fine, some say not. Anyone who has experiences? I don't really need performance issues, and I have to use MySQL as well. (I've read somewhere that using mod_ruby will result in MySQL problems)

I've got this development environment:

- Windows XP Professional (SP2) x86
- Apache for Windows 2.2.3 (with no ssl - the official release)
- PHP 5.2.0
. MySQL 5.0.22 (Community Edition)
- Ruby 1.8.5.21
- Rails Framework 1.1.6

The production one will be similar, but with FreeBSD OS.

Thanks for your advice!
Liquid

[liquid986]

And this is what i've found about mod_ruby:

Using mod_ruby

This is not recommended when using Rails. Rails is independant and does not need mod_ruby to run.Mod_ruby is an alternative way of using Ruby to create web applications. You can use mod_ruby as CGI and have web pages containing Ruby code interpreted natively by Apache2. Mod_ruby does not have the set MVC that Rails uses and many other tools that make quick work of creating a web application. It might be best if you decide to use mod_ruby to stop at this point and not install rubyonrails. This is because we are trying to get a development server going that is similar to a web hosting enviroment and not many web hosts are going to use both mod_ruby and rubyonrails. There is also the fact that a *.dll for windows use of mod_ruby to this date does not exist. Mod_ruby installation would include compiling under windows using cygwin and other tools. This probably accounts for a good portion of the popularity of RubyOnRails.

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