[typo] Deploying Ruby on Rails Applications

[Chet Farmer]

On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:10 AM, Scott Likens wrote:
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>> I'll certainly agree with that.  Getting mongrel working with  
>> mod_proxy was essentially an exercise in Google and reading blogs.
>
> Why is mod_proxy working with mongrel such an exercise?

Beats me. Perhaps you should refer to the first portion of my reply to  
you last night.

It's clearly a problem, though. It's also a problem that the purpose  
of Mongrel isn't made clear; you just have to take on faith that it's  
something you need to do based on the sketchy installation guide.

>> Yes.  And, frankly, Ruby + gems on most Linux distros is in such a  
>> state that I end up maintaining my own Ruby install from source.   
>> Given the pain of the recent security holes (for example), I find  
>> that this is actually driving me to think I should can it and go  
>> for the same suite of PHP apps as everyone else.
>
> I will agree with that, as Debian Etch currently has Ruby 1.8.4(2? i  
> forget) with Rubygems 0.92.  However is that Ruby's problem? or the  
> Linux distribution you chose?

It's definitely Ruby's problem if PHP, Perl, Python, etc., are all  
running fine out of the box.

Here, you're defaulting back to a knee-jerk defense of what is clearly  
your pet language. That has no place here. Compared to LAMP-stack  
stuff, RoR applications are much harder to set up and deploy. They  
require a totally different approach, and that approach is very poorly  
documented. This isn't a controversial statement.




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