# What is ruby-web.exe **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 7, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-ruby-web-exe/181216 "2010-01-07T13:57:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/teddio)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-ruby-web-exe/181216/1 "2010-01-07T13:57:47Z")
Newbie question! I have never used Ruby, but I am trying to mirror a production web app written in Ruby onto a new test server running Windows 2003 and IIS. The production server lists ruby-web.exe as one of the files under the web extension handling ruby requests in the IIS setup, but having installed Ruby and Rails on the test server there is no ruby-web.exe present, and googling hasn’t turned up anything meaningful. Can someone tell me what ruby-web.exe is and where I can get an installer from? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/teddio)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-ruby-web-exe/181216/2 "2010-01-08T16:15:45Z")
Michael Hughesdon wrote: > Newbie question! > > I have never used Ruby, but I am trying to mirror a production web app > written in Ruby onto a new test server running Windows 2003 and IIS. > The production server lists ruby-web.exe as one of the files under the > web extension handling ruby requests in the IIS setup, but having > installed Ruby and Rails on the test server there is no ruby-web.exe > present, and googling hasn’t turned up anything meaningful. Can someone > tell me what ruby-web.exe is and where I can get an installer from? > > Thanks. After a little more searching…ruby web was a foundation built to better support ruby on the web. It appears to have been discontinued now, for details look it up in the internet wayback machine at [www.ruby-web.org](http://www.ruby-web.org). ---
**Author:** ![teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/teddio)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-ruby-web-exe/181216/3 "2010-01-08T18:33:19Z")
On 1/8/2010 8:15 AM, Michael Hughesdon wrote: > > tell me what ruby-web.exe is and where I can get an installer from? > > > > Thanks. > > After a little more searching…ruby web was a foundation built to > better support ruby on the web. It appears to have been discontinued > now, for details look it up in the internet wayback machine at > [www.ruby-web.org](http://www.ruby-web.org). Darn, and here I was hoping you knew something I didn’t since getting ruby running on IIS is something I have tried to do in the past. You can try ROR for IIS (I haven’t), but it’s had no updates and no news since 2007, which makes me leery. [http://www.codeplex.com/RORIIS](http://www.codeplex.com/RORIIS) The other question… is there a reason it needs to be IIS? Or even windows for that matter? If not, you could always get an Apache install on your windows server, and with a little configuration get ruby running under that, or go with an Ubuntu (or some other Linux server) and setup will be pretty trivial. ---
**Author:** ![teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/teddio)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-ruby-web-exe/181216/4 "2010-01-11T12:22:57Z")
Walton H. wrote: > On 1/8/2010 8:15 AM, Michael Hughesdon wrote: > > > > tell me what ruby-web.exe is and where I can get an installer from? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > After a little more searching…ruby web was a foundation built to > > better support ruby on the web. It appears to have been discontinued > > now, for details look it up in the internet wayback machine at > > [www.ruby-web.org](http://www.ruby-web.org). > > Darn, and here I was hoping you knew something I didn’t since getting > ruby running > on IIS is something I have tried to do in the past. You can try ROR for > IIS (I haven’t), > but it’s had no updates and no news since 2007, which makes me leery. > [http://www.codeplex.com/RORIIS](http://www.codeplex.com/RORIIS) > > The other question… is there a reason it needs to be IIS? Or even > windows for that > matter? If not, you could always get an Apache install on your windows > server, and > with a little configuration get ruby running under that, or go with an > Ubuntu (or some > other Linux server) and setup will be pretty trivial. Hi Walton, Unfortunately I work at a windows site so IIS it is. I’m glad to say that I now have ruby running, though I’ve fiddled around with so many instructions I’m not sure which one finally got it working. I did use the ROR for IIS you mentioned, it may be old but since I’m running on Win 2k3 server and IIS 6 my setup isn’t the most recent either. This is the site that seemed the most helpful if you need to try IIS again. > **[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...