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I have to deploy my Rails application on production environment. It is a Windows XP pc =(

I have found this articles http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/5/11/deploying-rails-on-windows-servers

But they are very very old. Is there a newer resource of information? Any experiences? Any tips? Apache? Mongrel?

Thanks

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  • Considering how inexpensive a VPS is, this seems like more trouble than it's worth. I don't think even Microsoft ever called XP a server-grade OS. Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 15:41
  • My client is a Bank and his OS is Windows XP (believe it or not). He wants to mantain the application behind his firewall, not in an external hosting. Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 16:22
  • That is truly terrifying. Hope you're not there in 2014 when all their XP machines are end-of-lifed and Microsoft stops issuing security updates. Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 20:41
  • Yes, thats unbelievable. I have one question, is there any way to setup a linux virtual machine and redirect Windows´ Apache to that server within the VM? Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 21:49
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    That sounds like a much better plan than trying to jimmy Rails on to an eleven year old OS. You can use something like VirtualBox from Oracle, VMWare, or VirtualPC to manage your virtual machine. Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 15:24

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This might help:

Installing Ruby – The RubyInstaller team has also provided a collection of tutorials from users who have setup a Ruby environment on Windows. Many of these include common issues experienced during the installation process, as well as the steps for setting up Git, MySQL, SQLite3, etc. https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Tutorials

Setting Up Git – GitHub has a set of instructions outlining how to setup Git on Windows. http://help.github.com/win-git-installation/

Rails Tutorials – Check out the Rails Installation (Windows) video as well as other great resources for learning Rails. http://railstutorial.org/

Finally, join the RubyInstaller Google Group for any additional questions. http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller

source -> http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/ruby-on-windows-the-last-frontier/

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This is useful but it is for development. My development environment is Mac but the production environment is windows.
What I need is to deploy the already developed Application in Windows XP.
Im getting the feeling that you might have miss some of the useful articles in github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Tutorials that talk about deploying to Windows.
Nathan, I am trying to use Mongrel with Apache on Windows. I couldn´t configure it. Do you have any good document about that. I didn´t find in those links
Do you already have apache running on this windows server? Are there production web apps running? Is apache a requirement?
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