Deploying Production Rails on Windows Server

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Hello Everyone,

I'm in need of a good guide that will describe how to deploy Rails in a production environment on windows. Unfortunately, I have no choice on the platform so I need to find something that will help me through this painful task. I'd like to know the best way and any links to guides to deploy a production ready rails application.

Thanks in advance!

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iplat wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I'm in need of a good guide that will describe how to deploy Rails in a production environment on windows. Unfortunately, I have no choice on the platform so I need to find something that will help me through this painful task. I'd like to know the best way and any links to guides to deploy a production ready rails application.

Thanks in advance!

If I remember correctly, Ezra's "Deploying Rails Applications" does have a section on Windows.

Cheers, Mohit. 11/13/2008 | 11:06 PM.

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iplat a écrit, le 11/13/2008 04:04 PM :

Hello Everyone,

I'm in need of a good guide that will describe how to deploy Rails in a production environment on windows. Unfortunately, I have no choice on the platform

You can't use VMware ? IIRC, Ruby is faster in a Linux virtual machine than in Windows itself...

Lionel

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I got this book. I'll take a look at it thanks.

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How does VMware fare for network routing and resource sharing? Do you know of an article that describes deploying this with VMWare? Thanks!

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Do you think the same idea will hold for VirtualBox over VMWare?

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iplat a écrit, le 11/13/2008 04:50 PM :

How does VMware fare for network routing and resource sharing? Do you know of an article that describes deploying this with VMWare? Thanks!    If you never used VMWare that might not be the best solution for you. What do you mean by network routing exactly ? What I had in mind is simply to setup a whole Linux system with it's own IP address and sharing the real network card cable with the virtual network card to make things transparent. I'm not sure which resources you need to share so I can't comment.

Lionel

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iplat a écrit, le 11/13/2008 05:14 PM :

Do you think the same idea will hold for VirtualBox over VMWare?    Any virtualization solution should do the trick as long as you know how to use it and have an IP address to give to the virtual computer on the same network than the one the real machine is connected to. You may even avoid using another IP address if your Windows server can be configured to redirect traffic to another address (one on a network only used for communications between the real host and the virtual one).

Lionel

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FWIW, VMWare, at least, is capable of both "bridging" (using an IP specific to the virtual machine) and NAT, where the VM shares the IP of the host.

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There are lots of choices for VMWare products. VDI, vmware server etc. Which is best suited for rails deployment?

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Holy cow, VMWare is expensive. I don't think is a choice any longer for me.

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So is Windows Server :slight_smile:

In any case, you can look into the free/open source options; I'm sure they have comparable capabilities. But if you're talking about running this in "production" your IT department might prefer a paid-for solution with commercial support. Just something to consider.

Good luck!