From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T06:54:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Rails to work on WinXP

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:57:34 +0900, Robo <robo@mars.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to the 10min Setup video tutorial, but the video's slightly
> outdated, and my environment's a bit different.
> 
> I've got Ruby 1.8, WinXP, Apache2, and MySQL working. I installed Rails
> via RubyGems, and I want to use it without virtual hosts, but simply as
> a subfolder in my regular www directory.
> 
> The provided Apache conf file assumes I'm using VirtualHost, so I
> modified it to:
> 
> <Directory /blog/public>
>    Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
>    AllowOverride all
>    Allow from all
>    Order allow,deny
> </Directory>
> 
> Because I used gems, the default files are not actually in the www
> directory like in the video. I've manually copied the folder across for now.
> 
> Inside E:\www\blog, I ran "ruby script/new_controller Weblog", and it
> created the weblog_controller.rb file in E:\www\app\controllers\, but
> when I go to http://localhost/blog/weblog, I simply get a 404 error,
> which I half expected, 'cos there's no weblog folder in the blog folder.
> In the video it seems to execute the controller scripts, but I can't get
> that to work.
> 
> So, say I was to start a project from scratch in my environment, how
> would I do it, to get Rails to print my hello world?
> 
> Robo
> 
> 

Does rails still require mod_rewrite for pretty urls in Apache?

I'm still using webbrick on Windows-
"ruby public/dispatch.servlet" from the root directory.

Regards,
Nick