> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:39:56AM -0800, Ben Bleything wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005, Preston Crawford wrote: >> > This is precisely my problem with Rails right now. It may be easy to >> use, >> > but why can't I just setup a stand-alone Rails app server? This >> increasing >> > complexity, needing to run two web servers on my home box? That's >> > craziness. >> >> You can, it's called webrick. No other framework or language I've >> worked with has a built-in application server. Maybe java does, but PHP >> and perl certainly don't. > > All of the J2EE stuff I've used has included HTTP in the application > server. > > I initially found it hopelessly annoying. :) I came to appreciate it > after a year or so of working with it.
Exactly. You can kick off Tomcat and you don't need Apache. And it can run as a service on port 80 if you want. This is the kind of simplicity that would help Rails be easier to deploy in small-scale situations (which is where much development, poking, proding, etc. happens.) Preston _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
