Rails - Jan 2012 - Install on Windows...how? WebRick/Mongrel don't work

I have always worked with Rails on Ubuntu but now I am forced to use
Windows 7. So I was wondering if it possible to use Windows 7 as the
OS for development. Is it?

I installed all the required bits but now I am struggeling to get
WebRick and/or Mongrell working.

It seems to start fine but fails to serve any requests. The page just
start to load for a long time and ends with timeout.

D:\wcs\crc4d>ruby script/server
=> Booting Mongrel
=> Rails 2.3.11 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server

I expected WebRick/Mongrel to start serving requests at http://localhost:3000
with that command but nothing seems to be happening.

Can it be done?




RubyGems: 1.3.7
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-12-28 patchlevel 357) [i386-mingw32]
Rails 2.3.11

actionmailer (2.3.11)
actionpack (2.3.11)
activerecord (2.3.11)
activeresource (2.3.11)
activesupport (2.3.11)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
i18n (0.4.2)
mongrel (1.1.5 x86-mingw32)
mysql (2.8.1 x86-mingw32)
mysql2 (0.2.6 x86-mingw32)
rack (1.1.3, 1.1.1)
rails (2.3.11)
rake (0.8.7)

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On 3 January 2012 14:38, Onno
<onno.van.der.straaten-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I have always worked with Rails on Ubuntu but now I am forced to use
> Windows 7. So I was wondering if it possible to use Windows 7 as the
> OS for development. Is it?
I believe that railsinstaller may be the best way if you have to
develop in windows.  Better though (IMHO) would be to run a Ubuntu VM
in virtualbox or vmware and develop there.

If you have to run a *production* rails server on windows then life
could be difficult I believe.

Colin

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