I'm in the situation where I can use any setup I want to and I went with Ubuntu with nginx and mongrel. Had previously used lighttpd but since Zed released mongrel my life has changed (thanks Zed!) Picking one linux distro over the other isn't something I'm comfortable doing over a mailing list. ;)
I know a lot of people swear by Solaris but, depending on where you plan to scale your app, that might be overkill. Here's a (somewhat dated) writeup in case you decide to go at it via Ubuntu: http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2007/05/09/install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-feisty-fawn -VInce On 7/26/07, Sean Colquhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody. I'm still kind of a newbie at anything that exists at a > lower level than the OS, but my company wants to set up a server for the > rails apps that I will shortly be developing for them. Most of the > functions will be only in-house, but some are meant to be accessible by > clients, so I need to set something up that will be strong enough to > handle a little bit of traffic. > > So here is my question: What do you recommend as the *best* or ideal > setup for your apps? Like, right now, they're running Fedora Core 2 on a > Dell Poweredge 1300 , running some web server I don't know about (I'm > not officially in the loop yet) to handle static HTML pages. > > I'm pretty much stabbing in the dark, but I'm guessing I will need to > install some kind of Linux somewhere on the machine or in a separate > drive and then use Mongrel or Lighttpd or both (do I need both running > at the same time? Does one run off the other? or can I just use one?) to > serve the application. Then I have to learn about networking and figure > out how we can keep one function inside while allowing another function > to go outside. But don't worry about that. > > So my boss is asking me which distribution of Linux is *the best*, and > since I don't even know if there is a *best* distribution for Rails > apps, I need to find some smart people to ask. i.e. you. > > So what do you use? Recommend? Warn people away from? What would you do > if you had a machine that you could configure any way you wanted? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > -- support independent business -- http://www.buyindie.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
