Need to Know deployment a rails application on windows

Rails
1

Hi,

Can anybody please help me to describe the detailed steps to deploy a
rails application in winows. I have gone through the net & find some
pdfs but these are categorially described for windows XP operating
systems. All these are also not describing from the scratch.

I need a complete manual of steps for deploying a rails application on
windows.
Particularly on Windows 2003.

Regards,
Manoj

2

It depends on what you mean by ‘deploy’. If you want to use your
windows box as a development server, this site should be fine. It’ll
tell you how to install and run RoR, as well as build a simple app to
get you started:

If you mean you want to get ruby on rails interacting with IIS, you’ll
have to look here:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoSetupIIS

-hope that

3

try here: Deployment Strategies for Rails on Windows servers | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC

4

Igor MilovanoviÄ? wrote:

try here: Deployment Strategies for Rails on Windows servers | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC

Thanks a lot for prompt reply :).

I am agin describing my problems which i have faced.
I have a demo application in ROR using web-rick server in windows.
For viewing this application i need to start each time the server.
Can i add this server to services so that each time i donot need to
start the server ??

If i can deploy all my codes to a live server then how do i automate all
these so that a external user can see my application.

Can i able to run web-rick in a live server.
Our server is windows 2003 os and my local os is win XP.
Can i face some portablity issue ??

Can anybody please help me regarding this.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Manoj

5

Hi Manoj,

Do you really need to deploy your rails app on Windows ? In that case,
mongrel would your best choice. But it’s not really advisable.

-Pratik

P.S → I really wish everyone just stops using ruby-forum.com to post
on rails list !

On 8/31/06, Manoj [email protected] wrote:

start the server ??

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Manoj

–
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

–
rm -rf / 2>/dev/null - http://null.in

Dont judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try…

6

Windows deployment of Rails is possible.

@Pratik: It’s perfectly acceptable to run Rails in production on
Windows…
you will just suffer performance issuess due to Ruby running much slower
on
Windows. We run quite a few applications here that way. Running on Linux
is
a much better solution for larger applications because it takes much
less
resources.

@Manoj:

Use the articles I wrote (Deployment Strategies for Rails on Windows servers | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC) to
get
yourself started. The commands for running Mongrel have changed since
those
were written but you can figure those out via Mongrel’s command line.

Post specific questions back to this thread and I’ll try to help.

7

Pratik Naik wrote:

Hi Manoj,

Do you really need to deploy your rails app on Windows ? In that case,
mongrel would your best choice. But it’s not really advisable.

-Pratik

Can you please suggest me the easiest way for deployment on windows ??

I need that very urgently.

Any help in this regard is appreciable.
Thanks,
Manoj