Re: A Nightmare on Rails Street: Windows Lives!

Sascha Ebach
2005-03-06T18:25:36Z

Hi John,

I have never managed to get Rails working on my Windows XP box.
Something always fails. But I managed to install Colinux/Debian
(www.colinux.org) with lighttpd/fastcgi which is considerably faster
than Cygwin. So you might want to investigate. It is a little bit like
cheating. But it is so nice to have a real OS running as a service in
Windows. The way I see it, it is the best solution for deploying on
Windows. Cygwin is good for many things, but when it gets serious and a
lot of stuff is running it has always bailed out on me.

Sascha