From: Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>
Date: 2005-11-09T08:22:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Instant Rails -- Are You Using it?

On 11/8/05, snacktime <snacktime@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/7/05, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Its been a little over three weeks since I released the first preview
> > of Instant Rails. In that time there have been over 3,000 downloads,
> > but very little little feedback.
> >
> > This tells me either that it is not being used (which would be bad) or
> > that it is being used but no one is having any significant problems
> > (which would be very good). So, if you are using it, but are just not
> > having any problems, I'd like to here from you just to get that
> > feedback.
> >
>
>
> I would love to give it a shot but it's windows only. Something like Instant
> Rails would be awsome for packaging with existing rails apps. A great way to
> distribute software that you can pretty much just unzip and run anywhere.
> One thing I found out fairly quickly is that your typical linux user isn't
> going to have all the bits and pieces that rails needs, such as fastcgi or
> scgi. Webrick is way too unstable. Application bugs can cause webrick to
> just die quite often, and what good is a webserver that absolutely requires
> no bugs in your application before it will run without crashing?

Version 2 of Instant Rails will be designed to run on Linux, BSD, and
OSX (as well as Windows).

Curt