[ruby-talk:10348] Re: Ruby cgi's in IIS

There is a way to get fast CGI under windows, by using another server other 
than IIS.  In fact there is a free server (won't do SSL, but you can buy an 
upgrade if needed) from IMATIX corporation.  http://www.imatix.com.  The 
fast CGI routine they provide is call LRWP (Long Running Web 
Process).  They provide sample scripts in Python and Perl to interface with 
the server.  I have written an incomplete script in Ruby for the interface. 
( I have classes that read and write to the interface, build a hash of the 
environmental variables, and gulp in posted data from a form).  I'm still 
working on multipart form data and parsing the posted data into another 
hash.  I've had a LRWP program up for about two weeks for testing.  I've 
had 3 scrips hitting it once every 30 seconds.  No memory loss.  However, 
the script is pretty simple and who knows what will happen when db access 
is added and more work is done in the script.

Anyway take a look at the XITAMI (imatix spelled backwards) server.

You can get a copy of my script for using LRWP in Ruby at:

http://www.guavaland.com/lrwp_xitami.zip

Ernie

At 18:26 2/4/2001 +0900, you wrote:
>Thanks.  Somehow I find IIS's gui more confusing than Apache's conf
>files.
>
>Any ideas on how to make Ruby persistent under IIS?  I've been playing
>with mod_ruby and eruby under Linux, and they appear to work great.  I
>like it that global variables persist between requests.  This will
>enable me to load expensive resources a minimum number of times.  It
>appears that the FastCGI runner for IIS is no longer available, and I'd
>kind of like to make Ruby CGI scripts that were portable between both
>Linux and Windows.
>
>Brent
>
>
>On 03 Feb 2001 16:39:31 +0900, Ernest Ellingson wrote:
> > In the management console, right click on the directory where the Ruby
> > script will run , click on properties, click on the button 
> Configuration in
> > the application settings frame under the directory tab, Click on Add,  the
> > rest is pretty straight forward.  There is a help button.  If your IIS
> > server is already set up for perl, look up the configuration for PERL 
> using
> > the Edit button.
> >
> > Ernie
> > At 09:22 2/3/2001 +0900, you wrote:
> > >Has anyone figured out how to make ruby cgi's run under NT/IIS?  Apache
> > >works fine using #!ruby, but I haven't figured out the trick for IIS.  I
> > >don't always get to choose the web server.
> > >
> > >Brent
> >