From: Osuka Adartse <rocioestradacastaneda@...>
Date: 2004-02-19T12:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Windows Apache Help

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Okay, I know that mod_ruby doesn't exist for Windows, and won't even
> compile under Cygwin.  I find this unfortunate, as I need to
> take my web server down for maintenance, I would prefer to have a backup
> online while I do so, and the only boxes available to play backup
> run Windows.
> 
> So I am willing to make do with traditional, fork/exec, slow,
> resource-intensive CGIs.  But I would also like to have my .rhtml's run through
> eruby automatically.  I can configure Apache to run eruby on them, but that
> means I need an eruby.exe for Windows.  Is it still possible to build a
> standalone eruby executable?   And will it build on Cygwin?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
I suppose it'll build on cygwin, I know it does on mingw so..., besides 
in the #{ruby_mirror}/ruby/binaries/cygwin/1.8/ext/ there's an 
eruby-1.0.5-i386-cygwin-1.8.tar.gz  , and very fresh: 13-jan-2004.

Adartse