Fred, That is so cool..thank you. I can see that a Windows shop could run a Rails application without having to expose themselves to the scary word LINUX. I guess the ALPHA user who is running the server on his Windows machine would run a "ipconfig" to get his IP address and then just tack on the :3000? Thanks, David
On Aug 4, 12:28 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 4, 6:58 pm, InventoryTrackers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Fred, > > Are you saying there's a way to call 'ruby script/server' with some > > extension to make this server apparent to other users on a Windows > > network? > > I've never seen how one can call someone elses' 127.0.0.1 from another > > machine. > > Well it won't be magically visible. You just need to know their ip > address and stickhttp://something:3000into a browser (like i said > you might need to make it bind to 0.0.0.0 first) > > Fred > > > Are you aware of any articles or sources that might shed light on > > this? > > Thank you, > > David > > > On Aug 4, 7:57 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On Aug 4, 2:18 pm, InventoryTrackers <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > I'm one of the unmentionable users that has been developing in Windows > > > > for the last 3 years. We all know that I can start a DOS script/server > > > > session on my machine and run the Rails application on my local > > > > browser. > > > > Is there a way that other Windows users could somehow 'pipe' onto this > > > > DOS session running and point THEIR browsers to it? > > > > Obviously, I'm exploring the 'holy grail' to see if we can run multi- > > > > user implementations in a Windows environment. > > > > Why would you need to do anything crazy at all - it's still running a > > > perfectly normal web server (it may be default bind to localhost but > > > that's just an option you pass to script/server) > > > > Fred > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
