From: Gabriele Marrone <gabriele.marrone@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T21:52:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Why create web servers?


Il giorno 08/nov/06, alle ore 04:26, CatLady [] ha scritto:

> Hi,
>
> Im just starting to get my feet wet with Ruby amd im having trouble
> understanding why someone would want to implement there own web  
> server.
>
> I know theres a WEBrick object and a few others out there that  
> allow you
> to create web servers with ease, but why would anyone want to do that
> when theres stable and fully featured servers already out there?

You could want (as I do) to develop Rails applications on your  
desktop box without installing and running an overkill webserver just  
for that purpose.
You could need (as I do) a quick and clean way to install a webdav  
server on a unix box where you don't have root access (or you don't  
want to mess with the existent production web server), I get a  
headache just thinking about installing Apache2 with PREFIX=~...

I'm sure many people out there have other reasons :)

>
> Sorry for posting this here, I dont really see this as a rails  
> question.

Well, I guess this is the right ML :)

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Gabriele Marrone