Hello
I have been following a few Ruby on Rails tutorials developing some
simple apps with inspiring levels of success. The reason is that I
have a large project which I would consider using RoR for (previously
I have developed using PHP + Codeigniter as a framework). The speed of
development with RoR is fantastic.
However - massive snag! My hosting company, 1&1, does not support
development with the RoR framework. Thier message to me was:
‘At the moment we support the regular Ruby framework but not the Ruby
on Rails’
My question is this:
Can I use Ruby on Rails as a local development framework and then
deploy the product of that work to my hosting server which supports
only Ruby? In other words does the output from an RoR development
require RoR on the production server?
If the answer is yes - RoR is required on the production server - then
I will either abandon RoR as a dev framework or find a new hosting
provider.
With thanks for any direction.
Best wishes to all.
Mike Jones
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:14 PM, mikertjones [email protected]
wrote:
However - massive snag! My hosting company, 1&1, does not support
development with the RoR framework. Thier message to me was:
‘At the moment we support the regular Ruby framework but not the Ruby
on Rails’
Ruby is a language, not a “framework”. The statement above would be
enough to send me off looking for a new hosting company.
My question is this:
Can I use Ruby on Rails as a local development framework and then
deploy the product of that work to my hosting server which supports
only Ruby?
No.
In other words does the output from an RoR development
require RoR on the production server?
Yes.
If the answer is yes - RoR is required on the production server - then
I will either abandon RoR as a dev framework or find a new hosting
provider.
Good luck with your decision 
–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan
Hassan S. wrote:
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:14 PM, mikertjones [email protected]
wrote:
However - massive snag! My hosting company, 1&1, does not support
development with the RoR framework. Thier message to me was:
‘At the moment we support the regular Ruby framework but not the Ruby
on Rails’
Ruby is a language, not a “framework”. The statement above would be
enough to send me off looking for a new hosting company.
Agreed; that’s just completely clueless tech support. As if there
weren’t already lots of reasons to abandon 1&1…
My question is this:
Can I use Ruby on Rails as a local development framework and then
deploy the product of that work to my hosting server which supports
only Ruby?
No.
Well, maybe. It depends on the the details of the hosts’ Ruby
installation. But it probably won’t be easy.
In other words does the output from an RoR development
require RoR on the production server?
Yes.
Right. It’s not “output” in the conventional sense: since Ruby is
interpreted, you need the interpreter there on the server, just like
what you’re used to with PHP.
The one exception would be if 1&1 supports Java. You could compile your
Rails app and the JRuby interpreter into a stand-alone Java servlet…
If the answer is yes - RoR is required on the production server - then
I will either abandon RoR as a dev framework or find a new hosting
provider.
As a former PHP developer myself, I’d say to find new hosting. Rails is
amazing. For hosting, I recommend Heroku or Slicehost.
Good luck with your decision
–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan
Best,
–Â
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]
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