[Rails] Re: script/server lighttpd on Windows

Wilson Bilkovich
Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:38:23 -0000

On 4/26/06, Alex Wayne <rubyonrails@beautifulpixel.com>
wrote:
> Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> > On 4/26/06, Alex Wayne <rubyonrails@beautifulpixel.com> wrote:
> >>
> > The lighttpd server script has this code in it:
> > unless RUBY_PLATFORM !~ /mswin/ && !silence_stderr { `lighttpd
> > -version` }.blank?
> >   puts "PROBLEM: Lighttpd is not available on your system (or not
in
> > your path)"
> >   exit 1
> > end
> >
> > ..which means it will always fail on Win32.
> >
> > Have you tried Mongrel? It''s very fast, and very
well-supported on
> > Windows.
>
> Dang, I just want to use lighty for development, not serve an app
> publicly.
>
> Is mongrel easy to start and stop like script/server and will work well
> for developing a rails app?
>

Yep.
"mongrel_rails start" is all you need, and there are command-line
options to enable very nice debugging output.