Good luck Josh. If you're going to go with MVC make sure they have ASP.NET3.5 Framework installed. -Joe
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Josh Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you both for your replies. There's only about 40 man-hours in > the project so far, so it is possible (though unpreferable) to do a > rewrite in MVC. > > I have looked at the papers on running Rails on IIS using both mongrel > and fast-cgi, but unfortunately, both of these are unfeasible. The > deployment is going to be a sub-site for a public university. > Originally, it didn't seem like it would be a problem to have a linux > server setup, but now things are being locked down tight, so > basically, all I'm going to have access to is x-copy deployment (and a > database script that can be run). So I won't have any access to the > server, and the servers guys have absolutely no interest in supporting > anything they don't already support. So basically, IIS and SQL Server > is what I get. > > I had already been looking at the IronRuby project, so I thought I > would go ahead and ask. > > Thanks again, > > Sincerely, > Josh > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Joe Fiorini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure which version of IIS you are running, but Mike Volodarsky, a > former > > IIS Team Member, has a guide to running RoR on IIS on his > > blog: > http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/02/18/10-steps-to-get-Ruby-on-Rails-running-on-Windows-with-IIS-FastCGI.aspx > . > > HTH! > > Joe > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ivan Porto Carrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> I think august is cutting it a little close. I have no idea how much > time > >> you've already spent on it, so dunno if a rewrite in a diff technology > is > >> the way to go. And you can deploy RoR to IIS. If you want I can send you > a > >> white paper. THe idea is that you forward all the requests to a mongrel. > >> I haven't had much luck with the FastCGI that the IIS team provides. It > >> just doesn't want to do it for me. But using mongrels/thin does work for > >> me. > >> > >> When IronRuby then comes into its own you can always switch to run that > >> app on IronRuby \ > >> > >> my 2c. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Ivan > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Josh Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello All, > >>> > >>> I have a Ruby on Rails codebase that is only partially completed. Due > >>> to circumstances beyond my control, the production server must be IIS, > >>> and there is absolutely no way to change this. Deployment is > >>> currently due in mid August, basically two months away. My question > >>> is this. What are the chances the IronRuby project will be ready to > >>> handle something like this at that point in time? Should I basically > >>> take what we have and rewrite it in something like ASP.NET MVC? > >>> > >>> I've spent sometime working and thinking about ways to make this > >>> happen. My approach, which is probably terrible, was to take the > >>> Web.Routing assembly in a regular ASP.NET application, create a > >>> catch-all route and pass all the information to the dispatch.rb file. > >>> Granted, I haven't actually got this to work, and this is probably a > >>> horrible way to do this. > >>> > >>> In any case, with deployment two months away, I need to make the > >>> decision now to stick with Rails, or make the switch over... > >>> > >>> Sincerely, > >>> Josh > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Ironruby-core mailing list > >>> Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Ironruby-core mailing list > >> Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > joe fiorini > > http://www.faithfulgeek.org > > // freelancing & knowledge sharing > > _______________________________________________ > > Ironruby-core mailing list > > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > -- joe fiorini http://www.faithfulgeek.org // freelancing & knowledge sharing
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