The 2nd edition of "Agile Web Development with Rails" claims that
script/server would start Mongrel or lighttpd instead of WEBrick if one
of these servers is installed. It does not seem to do that for Mongrel
on my Windows XP that has Mongrel installed by installing Instant Rails
1.4. Should I assume that the book has an error?
I'm not sure what 1.4 has in it: does it include an appropriately recent version of Rails. The book assumes Rails 1.2, and gives instructions inside the front cover on how to download a version of Rails that will work with the book's content until 1.2 becomes generally available. If InstantRails has an older Rails, stuff like this might not work.
FWIW, script/server on my local box runs webrick with 1.1.6, but happily uses Mongrel with the Rails I encourage you to download.
dave[~/rails 15:39:39] script/server
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
Thanks for your response. IR 1.4 comes with Rails 1.1.6 and I did
follow your instructions in the book's front cover to download and
unzip 1.2 into vendor directory. One thing I noticed is that rails -v
still reports 1.1.6 after running rake rails:update (don't know if that
is important). Second observation is that readme.html that comes with
Rails 1.2 makes a statement that script/server will start lighttpd (if
installed) but does not mention such capability for Mongrel.
I have to mention that I enjoy learning and developing with Rails
almost as much as I hate dealing with installation and server
configuration.
It does report 1.1.6--the core team won't update the version number until the release, and I didn;t want to confuse things by changing it on this bootleg version
1. Did you run rake rails:update
2. Is mongrel in the path?
If neither of these fix it, then I'd just fall back on "mongrel_rails start" (but I believe it should work--it does here, and on all the other machines I've tried it on).
1. I did run rake rails:update
2. Everything related to Mongrel is in directories under
C:\InstantRails-1.4\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems. I am issuing
script/server command while in directory
C:\InstantRails-1.4\rails-apps\myapp and this command starts WEBrick.
What does it mean, precisely? What would you like me to check?
1. If I type PATH in command window then I do see
C:\InstantRails-1.4\ruby\bin listed among directories.
2. C:\InstantRails-1.4\ruby\bin contains files mongrel_rails,
mongrel_rails.cmd, and mongrel_rails_service.cmd
Of cause I can type "mongrel_rails start". I just wanted to check if I
was doing everything correctly.
Thanks for your responses and sorry to have used your time.
