Re: A Nightmare on Rails Street: Windows Lives!

John Johnson
2005-03-07T00:06:31Z

On 06-Mar-2005, at 13:25, Sascha Ebach wrote:

> 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.
>
Thanks for that Sascha! I''ve never heard of Colinux, I''ll give
it a
try. Who knows, it may be part of the next "upgrade" they get :-)

Regards,
   JJ