Why cannot see webpage, only display directories (webrick)

Rails Deployment
1

I think I almost got it. But other than see the default welcome page in
the public folder I cannot see other pages that I created using
scaffold.

When I type the application name that I created using “rails” command,
it only displays the directories under it.

I am using webrick. I guess it comes with rails.
I have seen people saying using mongrel. Which one is better in terms of
working with apache?

I am still not very clear about how it actually works. Any suggestion of
any books, tutorials for beginners of those server configrations?

Thanks!

2

It sounds like you are still working within a development deployment,
rather than a deployment environment.

When I type the application name that I created using “rails” command,
it only displays the directories under it.

where are you typing this name? You should be accessing your
application at http://localhost:3000

Best,
Jamie

3

I can see the pages on the server (local host). localhost works fine.
But when I am using the other computer and typed domain. I can only see
the directory list.

[email protected] wrote:

It sounds like you are still working within a development deployment,
rather than a deployment environment.

When I type the application name that I created using “rails” command,
it only displays the directories under it.

where are you typing this name? You should be accessing your
application at http://localhost:3000

Best,
Jamie

4

Webrick is useful only for development, not production. It is way too
slow. There’s a some message thread here on mongrel that you might
look at.

If you are seeing the rails welcom message, you may have a file named
index.html in your app/public directory. Rename this to something like
oldindex.html and retry.

5

Yan wrote:

Yes, you’ll want to use Mongrel for this and usually people have
something in front of it (Apache, Nginx, Pound, Lighttpd).

I am still not very clear about how it actually works. Any suggestion of
any books, tutorials for beginners of those server configrations?

I think that there is some mention of this in the Agile Web Dev with
Rails book.

Some of our customers are working on deployment tips here:

Good luck!

Robby

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Robby R.
http://www.robbyonrails.com/