Must I use Apache locally?

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Hello,

I am considering trying out Ruby but have following question.

At the moment I have a web site which uses PHP and MySQL. The hosting
server is a Unix server and may well be running Apache but at the
moment I do not know for sure.

Do I have to develop code on my own PC using Apache?

Cheers

Geoff

2

Hi Geoff,

when developing your Rails application you don't need any web server (until it comes to the deployment on your hosting server :wink: ).

Rails comes with an in-build web server (WEBrick) that you can start with "script/server" from your Rails app root directory. But you'll still need MySQL though :wink:

Cheers and best regards,

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen

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On 6 May 2007, at 11:20, Geoff Cox wrote:

Hello,

I am considering trying out Ruby but have following question.

At the moment I have a web site which uses PHP and MySQL. The hosting
server is a Unix server and may well be running Apache but at the
moment I do not know for sure.

Do I have to develop code on my own PC using Apache?

Cheers

Geoff

3

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen wrote:

Hi Geoff,

when developing your Rails application you don't need any web server (until it comes to the deployment on your hosting server :wink: ).

Rails comes with an in-build web server (WEBrick) that you can start with "script/server" from your Rails app root directory. But you'll still need MySQL though :wink:

Actually, *Ruby* comes with WEBrick.

To test deployment, you can use Apache (dunno how easy it is to set that up with Windows OSes and mod_ruby, I had no luck, but didn't try very hard), or a UNIX/Linux VM (there are free virtualization tools, like VMware Server, Innotek's VirtuaBox, MS Virtual PC, the open source version of Virtuozzo).

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Hi Geoff,

when developing your Rails application you don't need any web server
(until it comes to the deployment on your hosting server :wink: ).

Rails comes with an in-build web server (WEBrick) that you can start
with "script/server" from your Rails app root directory. But you'll
still need MySQL though :wink:

Cheers and best regards,

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen

Thanks Enrique.

Cheers

Geoff

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On Sun, 6 May 2007 18:25:35 +0900, Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@mac.com> wrote:

On 6 May 2007, at 11:20, Geoff Cox wrote:

Hello,

I am considering trying out Ruby but have following question.

At the moment I have a web site which uses PHP and MySQL. The hosting
server is a Unix server and may well be running Apache but at the
moment I do not know for sure.

Do I have to develop code on my own PC using Apache?

Cheers

Geoff

5

Hi Geoff,

when developing your Rails application you don't need any web server
(until it comes to the deployment on your hosting server :wink: ).

Rails comes with an in-build web server (WEBrick) that you can start
with "script/server" from your Rails app root directory. But you'll
still need MySQL though :wink:

To get started, you might want to try an embedded SQLite3 database. No
need to run a db server.

--max

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On 5/6/07, Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@mac.com> wrote:

Cheers and best regards,

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen

On 6 May 2007, at 11:20, Geoff Cox wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am considering trying out Ruby but have following question.
>
> At the moment I have a web site which uses PHP and MySQL. The hosting
> server is a Unix server and may well be running Apache but at the
> moment I do not know for sure.
>
> Do I have to develop code on my own PC using Apache?
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff
>

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I know it's not standard Rails procedure, but these days when I deploy apps I sometimes don't deploy with any sort of a conventional web server at all. I've found that I can serve static assets amply fast enough without it (3500+ small files/second on a commodity 64 bit AMD Linux box), and I like the simplicity of a system that doesn't incorporate a traditional web server at all in the request handling chain.

Kirk Haines

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On Sun, 6 May 2007, Enrique Comba Riepenhausen wrote:

Hi Geoff,

when developing your Rails application you don't need any web server (until it comes to the deployment on your hosting server :wink: ).

7

Thanks for the info Phillip.

Cheers

Geoff

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On Mon, 7 May 2007 04:23:22 +0900, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen wrote:

Hi Geoff,

when developing your Rails application you don't need any web server
(until it comes to the deployment on your hosting server :wink: ).

Rails comes with an in-build web server (WEBrick) that you can start
with "script/server" from your Rails app root directory. But you'll
still need MySQL though :wink:

Actually, *Ruby* comes with WEBrick.

To test deployment, you can use Apache (dunno how easy it is to set that
up with Windows OSes and mod_ruby, I had no luck, but didn't try very
hard), or a UNIX/Linux VM (there are free virtualization tools, like
VMware Server, Innotek's VirtuaBox, MS Virtual PC, the open source
version of Virtuozzo).