Hello,
I want to deploy my rails app on my college LAN and use it as a intranet site. I am MAC user so i dont know much about configuring windows to run the rails app as intranet site. I currently have a rails app with mysql database and webrick server. Can anyone help me with this?
Your college's sysadmin (person/team/department) would probably be the best place to start... some places don't like people turning web servers on on their network...
Who is in charge of this LAN? Do you have space on a server on that LAN, do you have root or sudo in that space, and are you sure it's Windows-based? Does it have to be on the LAN, or could you use Heroku or another simple hosting service (and SSL, if security is your issue) instead?
Walter
Thanks Michael for the reply... My college sysadmin doesnot know how to deploy the rails app. He knows to deploy websites with apache server but my rails app uses webbrick. So i wanted to know how to deploy it in webbrick and access in LAN.
Hello Walter, Thanks for the reply. I just want to run my final year engineering project on windows based LAN. i use webrick as my server so i want to knw how can i run the app in one machine and access in oder systems. I have not be alloted a special server also. I have a PC to deploy the app with windows xp os.
Webrick is not really suitable as a server for very many clients but you should be able to bring up the server on your system and just go over to another system and access it at http://(your hostname or ip):3000 from some browser. You may have to work on the configuration of your firewall to let outside connections in but that will work. You probably should install mongrel or thin if you want to support more than a few connections. I have done this between a couple of my windows systems so I know that it is possible.
Norm