From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2003-09-29T10:53:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone have any luck with eruby on Windows?

Zach Dennis wrote:
> I've read through the talk's archives quite a bit and there seems to have
> been some interest in eruby and mod_ruby on windows and several suggestions
> of how to get eruby to work. I am having the same 'premature header' issues
> that most were having with eruby. Through all of the talk no one ever said
> that they had gotten it to work in the end. I have tried all of the
> suggestions I have seen and it still does not work for me. Has anyone
> successfully implemented eruby (or mod_ruby) under a win32 environment, not
> using cygwin?

Ara Howard has converted me to the benefits of fastcgi for Ruby.  It's 
much faster than even mod_ruby and it is easier to implement on a wide 
variety of systems.  I'm pretty sure you can get fastcgi to interface 
with Ruby on Windows, though it is somewhat difficult.  I was able to 
compile fastcgi support into Apache on Windows but finally decided to 
stop kicking against the pricks and develop on linux, since all my apps 
are deployed in a unix-based environment anyways and I was spending more 
time trying to set things up than I was developing software.  Although I 
do very much agree that if we had easier windows solutions it would do a 
lot for promoting ruby.

Carl Youngblood