Ruby On Fail
August 9th, 2009
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The documentation for setting up a web server for RoR (Ruby on Rails) on Windows is really lacking. Figuring out what server software you’re supposed to use is probably the hardest part. Should you use Apache or IIS as the web server? How are you going to connect it to Ruby? CGI, FastCGI, fcgid, Mongrel, mod_ruby, passenger (aka mod_rails / mod_rack) or WEBrick (not recommended for production use)?
If you pick a combination that doesn’t work properly on Windows, you can spend hours (as I did with mod_fcgid) trying to figure it out.
The solution that worked for me was setting up Mongrel (which is a Ruby web server) as a service, and using Apache to proxy Ruby requests to Mongrel.
Here’s a step by step tutorial:
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