Rails - Oct 2005 - What to install/configure?

Hi railers,

(railers?  Rails-ers?  How do you folks refer to yourselves?)

I''m brand spankin'' new to most of this.  I''m just
learning ruby, just
learning rails, just learning MySQL, and really just learning about
Apache/CGI-type stuff.  I have a long background with UNIX sysadmin and
scripting (lots and lots of Perl and Bash), so the ruby is coming fast
(and it''s great!)  I''ve done DB development in the past, so
writing SQL
is pretty simple.

I''m trying to put together a list of what to install and configure on a
small linux box I''m putting together to make all this work.  So far,
I''m
looking at:

Fedora Core 4 (latest)

RPMs:
1) Apache (httpd, httpd-devel, and httpd-manual)
2) MySQL (mysql, mysql-server, mysqlclient, and mysql-devel)
3) ruby (ruby, ruby-libs, and ruby-devel)

Gems:
4) rails
5) actionpack
6) actionmailer
7) actionwebservice
8) activerecord
9) activesupport
10) rake

Where I start losing it is when we get to CGI/mod_ruby/FastCGI/SCGI and
so on.  What am I missing?  What do I need?  The default CGI stuff with
Apache seems WAY too slow.  I tried installing/configuring FastCGI and
couldn''t get it working right.  The SCGI stuff seems really new (is
anyone using it?).

What CGI solution do most use?  FastCGI?  mod_ruby?  SCGI?

Any advice is great, thx!

I did see the one-click-ruby-on-rails thing, but I''d rather learn each
app instead of downloading an all-in-one solution.

--Errin

Here is what I used to get started:

http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/howto/fc4rails

On 17-Oct-05, at 1:07 PM, Larsen, Errin M HMMA/IT wrote:
> Hi railers,
>
> (railers?  Rails-ers?  How do you folks refer to yourselves?)
>
> I''m brand spankin'' new to most of this.  I''m
just learning ruby, just
> learning rails, just learning MySQL, and really just learning about
> Apache/CGI-type stuff.  I have a long background with UNIX sysadmin  
> and
> scripting (lots and lots of Perl and Bash), so the ruby is coming fast
> (and it''s great!)  I''ve done DB development in the past,
so writing
> SQL
> is pretty simple.
>
> I''m trying to put together a list of what to install and configure
> on a
> small linux box I''m putting together to make all this work.  So  
> far, I''m
> looking at:
>
> Fedora Core 4 (latest)
>
> RPMs:
> 1) Apache (httpd, httpd-devel, and httpd-manual)
> 2) MySQL (mysql, mysql-server, mysqlclient, and mysql-devel)
> 3) ruby (ruby, ruby-libs, and ruby-devel)
>
> Gems:
> 4) rails
> 5) actionpack
> 6) actionmailer
> 7) actionwebservice
> 8) activerecord
> 9) activesupport
> 10) rake
>
> Where I start losing it is when we get to CGI/mod_ruby/FastCGI/SCGI  
> and
> so on.  What am I missing?  What do I need?  The default CGI stuff  
> with
> Apache seems WAY too slow.  I tried installing/configuring FastCGI and
> couldn''t get it working right.  The SCGI stuff seems really new
(is
> anyone using it?).
>
> What CGI solution do most use?  FastCGI?  mod_ruby?  SCGI?
>
> Any advice is great, thx!
>
> I did see the one-click-ruby-on-rails thing, but I''d rather learn
each
> app instead of downloading an all-in-one solution.
>
> --Errin
>
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Download the all-in-one solution.  By the time you need to re-install you may
have
forgotten what you learned by doing it a step at a time...

Warren Seltzer