Need help to installe ROR on my server

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i'm new to Ruby on Rails. I would like to try it. I have a windows server 2003. What do i need to install ?

Thanks Real Drouin real.drouin@gmail.com

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I've never used this and can't vouch for it but this was posted to
RubyFlow today...

http://bitnami.org/article/new-rubystack-released

best. mike

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i'm new to Ruby on Rails. I would like to try it. I have a windows server 2003. What do i need to install ?

Welcome!

I started by getting first installing the Ruby One-Click Installer for Windows: http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl

It also installs the RubyGems system, so you can just do "gem install rails" from your Windows prompt to install the Rails framework.

We also have a forum setup specifically for Windows users switching to Rails: http://forum.softiesonrails.com, but there are other good resources on the web, too.

Jeff softiesonrails.com purpleworkshops.com

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I’m reading a lot about ROR since this morning. Is it working well on Windows ? What about fastcgi. Is it available.

Thanks

Real

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I'm reading a lot about ROR since this morning. Is it working well on Windows ? What about fastcgi. Is it available.

Development on Windows is fairly stable... You can start with Notepad, but there are a variety of IDEs available. If you are a .NET developer currently, you might want to check out SapphireSteel.com which has a plug-in for Visual Studio.

Deployment on Windows is not a good story right now with IIS, but Apache for Windows with mongrel works fine. I'd recommend Pragmatic's Deploying Rails book, which includes an entire chapter on deploying to Windows servers. One day IIS will support FCGI but I'm not exactly sure if there's a good track record for that yet.

I was a longtime .NET developer who later switched to Rails, and eventually switched to Mac because there's a better toolset available for Mac/Linux development and deployment. IronRuby should eventually help tip the scales back a bit, but it will be a little while yet before we see a measureable impact.

Jeff softiesonrails.com purpleworkshops.com