Thank you both! I was just hoping that there is a rails-like way to built a local app on windows... :-(
Is there maybe an easy way to use pure Ruby to built a local app on windows? Sebastian On 7 Dez., 22:10, Norm Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/07/2011 05:04 AM, Sebastian wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I already have succussfully developed a web app with Rails 3 on an > > Ubuntu server. > > > Now I want to build a small desktop app that should be running in > > windows. I really like the easy way of Rails development. The best way > > would be to run that app in a browser, but execute it on a local pc. > > > Is there any way to create a rails app without a web server??? > > Similiar to emulate the server with "rails server" in command line, > > but I don't want that a whole server is running in the background. > > > I have found a GUI called "shoes" for Ruby, but that is not that easy > > like rails and the apps are getting really big, because the whole > > shoes interpreter is added! > > > Thanks in advance! > > > Sebastian > > As explained by others Rails requires a server. This server can be > webrick or mongrel which do not require much setup. > I have deployed an application which is either used locally or remotely > using InstantRails. I have had to upgrade many of the parts including > the version of Ruby used and Rails and Gems and Rake ... but it does > work, at least with Rails up to 2.3.14. I have not tried it with 3.x yet. > > You can take a look at OpenCampground.com for one way of doing this. It > is gpl so you can download it and it might give you some ideas. > > Norm -- 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.
