[Mongrel] Mongrel doesn''t start under Rails 2.0.2/Win XP

Luis Lavena
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:36:51 -0000

On Jan 11, 2008 5:28 PM, Stephen C <bettheriver at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello. I''m new to this list as of this week.
> I am supporting a Win2k3Server installation of RoR. I''m not very
familiar
> with what you guys are discussing but I did have a very similar error
> occuring earlier in the week. I had just installed Ruby for IIS version 0.1
> (http://rubyforiis.sosukodo.org/rubyforiis/). For some reason it stepped on
> this dll during the install. After realizing it would be very stupid to try
> to support RoR on IIS, I uninstalled this software and the error magically
> disappeared. I have no further explanation for what happened.
> Hope this helps.
>

RubyForIIS have two problems:

Is outdated.
Is compiled with VC8, which is not compatible with One-Click Installer (VC6).

Part of RubyForIIS is libfcgi and ruby-fcgi, which could be getting
loaded and thus, failing with missing dll.

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Luis Lavena
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