Multiple users rails hosting

[Aquila]

After some searching I discovered a unix machine where I can run Rails.
Multiple users would like to experiment with rails as a webserver, so each
with their own public_html.
How can this be done? Webrick is only for one website and mod_ruby seems to
work badly? Or should we use FastCGI?

 

[Javier Fontan]

Hello,

El 03/04/2005, a las 11:29, Aquila escribió:

After some searching I discovered a unix machine where I can run Rails.
Multiple users would like to experiment with rails as a webserver, so
each
with their own public_html.
How can this be done? Webrick is only for one website and mod_ruby
seems to
work badly? Or should we use FastCGI?

I recoment you to use webrick in developing/testing phase as seems much
easier do debug. You can run multiple webrick servers using different
ports so you can have many aplications served one in each port.

Happy coding

 

[Aredridel]

After some searching I discovered a unix machine where I can run Rails.
Multiple users would like to experiment with rails as a webserver, so each
with their own public_html.
How can this be done? Webrick is only for one website and mod_ruby seems to
work badly? Or should we use FastCGI?

I'd use WEBrick with mod_proxy in either apache or lighttpd, or FastCGI.

Both setups isolate each user into a separate process. FastCGI is the
faster option.

 

[Aquila]

I recoment you to use webrick in developing/testing phase as seems much
easier do debug. You can run multiple webrick servers using different
ports so you can have many aplications served one in each port.

I only have port 80 available, everything else is filtered out.

 

[Brett]

I'd suggest trying a non-VHost install. The rubyonrails.org Howtos
have a good demonstration:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/Non VHost Installation

This was how I installed Rails in my local public_html/cgi-bin
directory.