Routes.rb

Rails
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Hi I am very new to Ruby and Rails.
I am trying to setup a simple application on Apache with MySQL on a
Fedora system.
I have trouble setting up fast cgi, I am trying to deal with it.
But is fast cgi mandatory? From what I have read it boosts the
performance of the rails application.

I tried a scaffold application and I am able to run it using webbrick.
I am trying to set this up in Apache but I am stuck with changing the
default route.
I have enabled CGI in apache and when I point my browser to the public
folder I am able to see the “Congratulations, you’ve put Ruby on
Rails!” page. But I am not able to configure it run the application.
The name of the application is blogtest and I have set the Alias
(/blogtest) and Directory options in Apache’s httpd.conf file to the
public folder of the rails application.
The application has a controller named admin (admin_controller.rb)

I tried my best to search on the net and find out something I could
understand but wasn’t able to figure out. If someone could explain me
how to configure and help me understand how it all works that will be
great.

Thanks
Ramesh

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But is fast cgi mandatory? From what I have read it boosts the
performance of the rails application.

No ,its not mandatory …atleast not for development phase

I tried a scaffold application and I am able to run it using webbrick.

I am trying to set this up in Apache but I am stuck with changing the
default route.

Have you setup a Virtual host or a Directory alias in Apache ?
I guess if you are seeing the Rails welcome page that must be taken care
of.
So open the routes.rb and add (as given in the comments ) something
like
this
map.connect ’ ', :controller => “admin” ,:action =>‘index’

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Delete the index.html file if you haven’t already.

The .htaccess file looks for that first. If it’s found, your application
won’t start.

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