Nov

15

Ruby on Rails applications with Mongrel cluster and Apache url rewriting on Windows

Filed Under devs, Ruby on Rails, Windows, Apache | 24 Comments

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.

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Nov

8

Ruby on Rails applications with Mongrel cluster and Apache url rewriting on Ubuntu

Filed Under devs, Ruby on Rails, Ubuntu, Apache | 3 Comments

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 ruby
sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc libmysql-ruby
# download rubygems
sudo wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/20989/rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
# tar rubygems
tar -xvzf rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
# ruby setup.rb rubygems script
cd rubygems-0.9.4
sudo ruby setup.rb
# download and install Ruby on Rails framework
sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies

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