# RE: newbie - Apache problem two apps **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 1, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-apache-problem-two-apps/91785 "2005-12-01T22:15:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HOGANBP)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-apache-problem-two-apps/91785/1 "2005-12-01T22:15:09Z")
Heheheheh that can be a HUGE pain in the butt and it depends largely on what OS you’re using. Most folks don’t do it that way… They prefer to use vhosts. [http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOn](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOn) OneMachine Take a look around the wiki… A lot of these questions are answered there. ---
**Author:** ![HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HOGANBP)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-apache-problem-two-apps/91785/2 "2005-12-01T22:43:28Z")
This seems to be a big pain as compared to php or jsp. I can just place the app folder in the directory and call it. I check ed on your link, but I do not understand how to get this working. Is Apache the only way on Windows? Regards, Frank R. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HOGANBP)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-apache-problem-two-apps/91785/3 "2005-12-02T02:18:12Z")
I was reading the documentation about ActiveRecord and this line caught my eye …which again gives Product#name and Product#name=(new\_name) Why is it that sometimes a dot notation is used and sometimes the #? The same thing is true in css where they use .blue for a class and #blue for an id. Your help will help me digest my dinner. bruce ---
**Author:** ![HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HOGANBP)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-apache-problem-two-apps/91785/4 "2005-12-02T02:26:17Z")
On 2/12/2005, at 2:16 PM, Bruce B. wrote: > I was reading the documentation about ActiveRecord and this line > caught my eye > > …which again gives Product#name and Product#name=(new\_name) > > Why is it that sometimes a dot notation is used and sometimes the #? By convention # indicates an instance method and . indicates a class method, for example. Product.find(:all) indicates that this is valid code, whereas Product#name shows that you’ll need to create a Product instance first. ## That’s what I remember from the Pickaxe anyway. Phillip H. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HOGANBP)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-apache-problem-two-apps/91785/5 "2005-12-02T03:55:22Z")
Thanks Phillip. My dinner is duly digested. Perhaps I should pick up this pickaxe book. Is it the free download off the web or is this something else. I bought Agile web development. Happy to buy this if it will save you answering hundreds of questions from me. bruce ---
**Author:** ![HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HOGANBP)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-apache-problem-two-apps/91785/6 "2005-12-01T23:03:47Z")
Frank R. wrote: > This seems to be a big pain as compared to php or jsp. > I can just place the app folder in the directory and call it. True, but PHP and JSP is all about serving souped-up web pages. Rails is about building web-based applications, and things can be very different when you cross over that line (no matter how blurry PHP and JSP like to make it ;). -Brian ---
**Author:** ![HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@HOGANBP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HOGANBP)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-newbie-apache-problem-two-apps/91785/7 "2005-12-02T03:59:25Z")
On 2/12/2005, at 3:51 PM, Bruce B. wrote: > Thanks Phillip. My dinner is duly digested. Perhaps I should pick > up this pickaxe book. Is it the free download off the web or is > this something else. I bought Agile web development. Happy to buy > this if it will save you answering hundreds of questions from me. You can get the Ruby 1.6 version from [http://www.rubycentral.com/](http://www.rubycentral.com/) book/ or pick up the latest from [http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/](http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/) titles/ruby/index.html. I would definitely recommend it, it explains some of the weirder constructs you see and why they work, they make a lot more sense after that. – Phillip H. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid