Thinking in GIS

In the last post I showed you a configuration for serving Ruby on Rails applications with Mongrel cluster and Apache in a *nix environment (Ubuntu).With this post I will reproduce the same configuration in a Windows environment.The main difference in Windows is that you cannot use the mongrel_rails command with the cluster option (provided by the mongrel_cluster gem) that relies on daemonize functionality, only available on *nix platforms.What you will need to do is to manually create n Mongrel services for the n clusters you will need. Let's see how to do that.Install Ruby, gems and then install...
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This is the workflow I followed for setting up my Ubuntu (Ubuntu 7.04 - the Feisty Fawn, but should work without problems also for the latest Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon ) development machine for serving Rails application with Mongrel clusters and Apache.Install Ruby, gems and Ruby on Rails# install rubysudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc libmysql-ruby# download rubygemssudo wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/20989/rubygems-0.9.4.tgz# tar rubygemstar -xvzf rubygems-0.9.4.tgz# ruby setup.rb rubygems scriptcd rubygems-0.9.4sudo ruby setup.rb# download and install Ruby on Rails frameworksudo gem install rails --include-dependenciesmoreInstall Apache 2.2 and enable the needed modules (url rewriting, proxy, proxy_balancer e proxy_http)# install Apache 2.2sudo...
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