Hey Everyone, Thanks so much for all the responses, some really helpful stuff!
This is the first time I've posted on here and I'm blown away at how good the support community is! Zoltan I have copied your note so that I can install passenger when I understand a bit more about what I am doing - Thanks so much for this. Matt On Oct 9, 1:17 am, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Zoltan Gero wrote: > > don't worry, there's no dummy questions, everyone had to start > > somewhere. > > > On UNIX based systems (MacOS or Linux) just press CTRL+C, and the > > server will stop. > > > Later it can be a good idea to install Thin, because it starts faster, > > you do not have to wait when you rebooting server. Then just run "ruby > > script/server -thin" (if I remember well). > > There's actually a new option, which I think is fantastic: > > gem install passenger --pre > cd your_rails_project > passenger start > > This will allow you to run using the server that will most likely power > your Rails application in production, but with the same conveniences as > rails s. You can stop passenger in the same way with (Ctrl-C). Another > nice convenience is that if you need to restart, you can touch > tmp/restart.txt just like you would on the deployment server. > > As mentioned by others, it is common and very convenient to run the > server in a separate terminal. I generally have three terminal tabs open > when developing Rails. One for running command line generators and rake, > a second for running autotest (w/ autotest-growl), and a third for > running passenger and monitoring the development log. > > Note: The first time you use passenger start it will install a number of > things. Most notably Nginx, which makes developing locally work in a > very similar environment to what production will be. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
