# Rails on Sun

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149 "2006-02-14T18:33:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kelhart)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149/1 "2006-02-14T18:33:04Z")

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Hi Everbody,

I’ve got a potential idea for introducing Rails to my company. My only  
shot at this is to minimize what our Ops guys would have to install and  
configure to get this up and running.

Right now, our servers are Solaris boxes and we are using Sun ONE as our  
web server.

Anyone got Rails running in this environment?

Also, has anyone got Rails talking to Oracle databases?

Cheers!

```
  Kevin
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**Author:** ![kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kelhart)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149/2 "2006-02-14T18:44:47Z")

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Hello,

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I personally haven't go it to work on Sun ONE but its entirely possible 

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to  
build pkgs for something like lighttpd and rails. [Blastwave.org](http://Blastwave.org) would be  
a start  
in my opinion. I think people have Rails chatting to an Oracle database.

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Cheers,

Aly.

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Kevin E. wrote:

> Also, has anyone got Rails talking to Oracle databases?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
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> Kevin
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Aly S.P Dharshi  
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```
 "A good speech is like a good dress
  that's short enough to be interesting
  and long enough to cover the subject"

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**Author:** ![kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kelhart)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149/3 "2006-02-14T21:04:50Z")

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Rails 1.0, Solaris 2.6, Oracle 10g, Apache on a sun v880

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**Author:** ![kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kelhart)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149/4 "2006-02-15T03:49:48Z")

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On 2/14/06, Kevin E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Also, has anyone got Rails talking to Oracle databases?

I haven’t done anything on Solaris with Rails, but the Oracle support  
is excellent. There are a few open tickets, but they’re  
performance-related, rather than anything to do with data integrity.  
Even 1.0 features like Migrations work fine.

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**Author:** ![kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kelhart)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149/5 "2006-02-17T07:07:01Z")

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Kevin,

The S. Java System Web Server 6.1 does have a fastcgi plugin that may  
help support rails. I have yet to try it. Otherwise, I had good luck  
with building ruby and installing rails on Solaris 10.

Fred

On 2/14/06, Kevin E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> * * *
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> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

–  
Frederic J.  
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**Author:** ![kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kelhart)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149/6 "2006-02-17T14:24:09Z")

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Excellent! Thanks Fred.

Frederic J. wrote:

> Here’s some documentation on the fastcgi plugin:  
> [http://docs.sun.com/source/819-1809/fcgi61.html](http://docs.sun.com/source/819-1809/fcgi61.html)

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**Author:** ![kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kelhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kelhart)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-sun/68149/7 "2006-02-17T07:25:06Z")

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Here’s some documentation on the fastcgi plugin:  
[http://docs.sun.com/source/819-1809/fcgi61.html](http://docs.sun.com/source/819-1809/fcgi61.html)

Fred

On 2/16/06, Frederic J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)
> 
> –  
> Frederic J.  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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Frederic J.  
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