script/server to support mongrel 7
I could be reading this wrong, but ticket 5475 just added mongrel support to script\server on Windows. That is great news.
I actually started playing with mongrel just last weekend after getting inspired by Amy’s post about mongrel vs. webrick. It was easy to install (gem install mongrel) and you start and stop it just like you’ve done with webrick. (Or you can gem install mongrel_service, and then use it just like any other windows service).
If I’m right and script\server will use mongrel instead of webrick, then I can scrap my plans to add special mongrel support into Ride-Me – and I would be very happy, because less code is good, and no code is best!
Which reminds me – if you develop Rails on Windows and are looking for a sleek, fast, IDE, check out RideMe. We want it to be the best IDE for developing Rails apps on Windows. Thanks to Michael Leung for inviting me onto his core team. It’s fully open source under the MIT license, and we’re relying on the Microsoft Rails community (did I just say that?) to help us make it everything we want, and everything RadRails and Visual Studio are not (i.e. big and bloated and slow).
Ok, I gotta back to blogging about RailsConf.
Oh wow! Built-in Mogrel support would greatly simplify our lives Jeff. Nice!
Actually, thank you Jeff! You've done a great job so far, and we're very happy to have you!
Unfortunately, this isn't the case. Windows won't execute
mongrel_railscorrectly, but hopefully before the end of the day I'll send through something that will work on windows.Jeremy - I'm sure you're right that the patch doesn't work yet on win32, as the patch included a comment saying that it wasn't tested on win32 yet.
But, I felt it worthy of an announcement anyway because there appears to be every real intention by the core to supporting mongrel on win32.
So please do submit a patch if you can get it working - all of us Windows devs will be very grateful! Thanks.
I submitted a patch that should work on both windows and linux/mac os, patch #5499. Hopefully they'll get to it sometime within the next few days.
I was the guy who submitted the original patch also (#5475), along with the win32 comment :P
Jeremy: thanks! This will go a long way for the Rails on Windows community.
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