Myself and another developer (Olle Jonsson) have been trying to get our Rails apps deployed for production in Windows. The main stumbling block is with FCGI it would seem. Just to find out if we’re trying the impossible, it would be ace if anyone can give their success stories for getting Rails working in a production windows environment 8-)
—TobinHarris
I have managed to deploy Rails on a Windows XP machine (using Apache and FastCGI?) and wrote a little article while it was still fresh in my mind. I’m also looking at using WEBrick for dev as well as production use as it seems performance has been greatly improved. Hope it helps:
http://electricvisions.com/rails.html
—PhilThompson
Great stuff. Today, after exchanging a few emails with Phil, I’ve finally got a seemingly good installation of Apache + FastCGI? + Rails + MySql? working on a Windows 2003 box. Fantastic!
I’ve had some success with IIS – still some problems with URL rewriting but FCGI seems to be OK. http://made-of-stone.blogspot.com/2006/01/rails-on-iis-revisited.html
I’ve also started on an all-in-one WEBrick installer: http://made-of-stone.blogspot.com/2006/03/all-singing-all-dancing-all-in-one.html
— Baz