Hi Helen, if you want to move you Rails application onto a public
server for demonstration you will need to make sure that the server
supports Rails, that is a Windows/Linux/Unix/OSX server with at least
ruby and rails installed, a web server and ideally FastCGI, SCGI or
Mongrel.
You can ask your university IT department to find out if they do, if
not, your second next bet is to find a hosting company that does so
you can deploy your Rails application with them. I use Dreamhost and
they pretty good (google "Rails + Dreamhost" to find more) but that
will cost you at least 8 bucks a month to get the minimum package I
think, a bit expensive for demonstration only I suppose...
If you have a broadband connection you can also consider opening the
port 80 from your ADSL router and redirect HTTP traffic to your local
PC, hence people can reach your Rails application using you Broadband
IP, that should be OK for demonstration purposes.
My 2 cents ?
Gael
On 18/04/06, Helen Mostyn <helenmostyn@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:> Hiya everyone,
>
> I''ve downloaded instant rails and have made a application on my
machine
> which is local. I need to now move this onto my university space so I
> can demostrate it in a few weeks time..only i''m not really sure
how I do
> it?
>
> Would anybody be able to offer me some advice, or point me in some
> direction where I could find out.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Helen
>
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