From: Sascha Ebach <se@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T17:32:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails, Lighttpd, FastCGI and Cygwin

Paul Wistrand wrote:
> Has anyone been successful in getting this combination (Rails, Lighttpd,
> FastCGI and Cygwin) working? I'm at my wits end trying to get rails working
> on anything other than webbrick which
> is just too slow to even get learning on. Please any help will be very
> appreciated.

Simple answer is: Just forget it. I have spent weeks on this before 
giving up. Lighttpd is not really supported on Cygwin. Yes, it does 
compile, but nobody has actually tested it. A far superior method is to 
use www.colinux.org. That's what I do. It gives you a real Linux as a 
Windows service. I have now heard numerous times that Rails runs well 
with the native Win32 version of Ruby, but have never tried it myself, 
yet. This would surely be the preferred way of doing things under 
Windows. The reason Webrick is so slow is because of Cygwin. Maybe it is 
faster with the native version. There is also the Ruby for Apache package.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyforapache/

Good luck
Sascha