RoR on Windows with Mongrel

Question

Where is the best tutorial for getting RoR working on a windows box with Mongrel? I'm a complete novice at server management, so the more detailed the better!

Answer 1

This seems to be the supported documentation:

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/wiki/Win32

Answer 2

I have found the book "Deploying Rails Applications" very useful. Specially the chapter "Deploying on Windows". It gives you step by step instructions to deploy a Rails application using Apache and Mongrel

Answer 3

You can follow this tutorial, it will get you setup you can actually manage your Mongrel server as a Windows service (start/stop/restart, start on boot, manage programatically etc etc):

How to setup mongrel as a native Windows service

I'm currently using this method to manage an instance of Redmine on a Windows box and it works wonderfully.

Good luck!

Answer 4

I once had to do something similar...

have a look at

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/877943/how-to-configure-a-rails-app-redmine-to-run-as-a-service-on-windows/878049#878049

it might be helpful

saludos

sas