# IIS Deployment **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [June 19, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iis-deployment/140936 "2008-06-19T22:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jcain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iis-deployment/140936/1 "2008-06-19T22:49:52Z")
Hello All, I have a Ruby on Rails codebase that is only partially completed. Due to circumstances beyond my control, the production server must be IIS, and there is absolutely no way to change this. Deployment is currently due in mid August, basically two months away. My question is this. What are the chances the IronRuby project will be ready to handle something like this at that point in time? Should I basically take what we have and rewrite it in something like [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) MVC? I’ve spent sometime working and thinking about ways to make this happen. My approach, which is probably terrible, was to take the Web.Routing assembly in a regular [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) application, create a catch-all route and pass all the information to the dispatch.rb file. Granted, I haven’t actually got this to work, and this is probably a horrible way to do this. In any case, with deployment two months away, I need to make the decision now to stick with Rails, or make the switch over… Sincerely, Josh ---
**Author:** ![jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jcain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iis-deployment/140936/2 "2008-06-19T22:55:47Z")
I think august is cutting it a little close. I have no idea how much time you’ve already spent on it, so dunno if a rewrite in a diff technology is the way to go. And you can deploy RoR to IIS. If you want I can send you a white paper. THe idea is that you forward all the requests to a mongrel. I haven’t had much luck with the FastCGI that the IIS team provides. It just doesn’t want to do it for me. But using mongrels/thin does work for me. When IronRuby then comes into its own you can always switch to run that app on IronRuby \ my 2c. Cheers Ivan On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Josh C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jcain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iis-deployment/140936/3 "2008-06-19T23:04:36Z")
Not sure which version of IIS you are running, but Mike Volodarsky, a former IIS Team Member, has a guide to running RoR on IIS on his blog: > **[10 steps to get Ruby on Rails running on Windows with IIS FastCGI - Mike...](https://mvolo.com/10-steps-to-get-ruby-on-rails-running-on-windows-with-iis-fastcgi/)** > > Since the original tech preview release of FastCGI last year, we've been seeing a lot of requests for getting Ruby on Rails running with our FastCGI.  Theoretically, since the FastCGI component uses a standard protocol to support FastCGI-enabled... . HTH! Joe On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ivan Porto C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jcain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iis-deployment/140936/4 "2008-06-19T23:18:46Z")
Thank you both for your replies. There’s only about 40 man-hours in the project so far, so it is possible (though unpreferable) to do a rewrite in MVC. I have looked at the papers on running Rails on IIS using both mongrel and fast-cgi, but unfortunately, both of these are unfeasible. The deployment is going to be a sub-site for a public university. Originally, it didn’t seem like it would be a problem to have a linux server setup, but now things are being locked down tight, so basically, all I’m going to have access to is x-copy deployment (and a database script that can be run). So I won’t have any access to the server, and the servers guys have absolutely no interest in supporting anything they don’t already support. So basically, IIS and SQL Server is what I get. I had already been looking at the IronRuby project, so I thought I would go ahead and ask. Thanks again, Sincerely, Josh ---
**Author:** ![jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jcain)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iis-deployment/140936/5 "2008-06-20T00:38:09Z")
Good luck Josh. If you’re going to go with MVC make sure they have ASP.NET3.5 Framework installed. -Joe On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Josh C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)