Rails - May 2006 - Two developers, one on unix and one on windows

Hello all,

An interesting problem, I am developing on Windows, another developer is 
using Unix, and our app and svn repository are running on a Linux box. 
We need an easy way to not keep breaking our app and each others 
development environs when we check in the code. The piece in question is 
the dispatch.fcgi. The path to ruby is (obviously) different in Windows 
and Unix. Has anyone run into this and what do you do? Thanks.

- Rob Dempsey

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Why are you using FastCGI for development mode? What''s wrong with 
WEBrick or, at most, CGI? Doesn''t development against FastCGI force you
to restart servers or processes a whole lot more than you''d otherwise 
need to?

If you don''t need FastCGI for development, your problem disappears 
because Windows ignores it under those circumstances and you can simply 
set it to the Unixy path on both platforms.

If you''ve got a good reason for doing development against FCGI, I 
suppose you could have a second dispatch.fcgi called somthing else (e.g. 
dispatch-win32.fcgi) and refer to that in the webserver conf on your 
windows boxes and refer to the original one on the Unixy boxes. No?

Robert Dempsey wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> An interesting problem, I am developing on Windows, another developer is 
> using Unix, and our app and svn repository are running on a Linux box. 
> We need an easy way to not keep breaking our app and each others 
> development environs when we check in the code. The piece in question is 
> the dispatch.fcgi. The path to ruby is (obviously) different in Windows 
> and Unix. Has anyone run into this and what do you do? Thanks.
> 
> - Rob Dempsey

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Steve,

We are using WEBrick. Do you know if it even pays attention to the 
dispatch files? Thanks.

- Rob

Steve Koppelman wrote:
> Why are you using FastCGI for development mode? What''s wrong with 
> WEBrick or, at most, CGI? Doesn''t development against FastCGI
force you
> to restart servers or processes a whole lot more than you''d
otherwise
> need to?
> 
> If you don''t need FastCGI for development, your problem disappears
> because Windows ignores it under those circumstances and you can simply 
> set it to the Unixy path on both platforms.
> 
> If you''ve got a good reason for doing development against FCGI, I 
> suppose you could have a second dispatch.fcgi called somthing else (e.g. 
> dispatch-win32.fcgi) and refer to that in the webserver conf on your 
> windows boxes and refer to the original one on the Unixy boxes. No?
> 

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Why not put an if statement in your dispatch.cgi and set the path depending
on which dir exists?

Is that possible?

On 5/1/06, Robert Dempsey <rdempsey@techcfl.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Steve,
>
> We are using WEBrick. Do you know if it even pays attention to the
> dispatch files? Thanks.
>
> - Rob
>
> Steve Koppelman wrote:
> > Why are you using FastCGI for development mode? What''s wrong
with
> > WEBrick or, at most, CGI? Doesn''t development against FastCGI
force you
> > to restart servers or processes a whole lot more than you''d
otherwise
> > need to?
> >
> > If you don''t need FastCGI for development, your problem
disappears
> > because Windows ignores it under those circumstances and you can
simply
> > set it to the Unixy path on both platforms.
> >
> > If you''ve got a good reason for doing development against
FCGI, I
> > suppose you could have a second dispatch.fcgi called somthing else
(e.g.
> > dispatch-win32.fcgi) and refer to that in the webserver conf on your
> > windows boxes and refer to the original one on the Unixy boxes. No?
> >
>
>
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I do the same thing (windows on my labtop / linux on my workstation)

just use mongrel for development :)

On 5/1/06, Liquid <has.sox@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why not put an if statement in your dispatch.cgi and set the path
> depending on which dir exists?
>
> Is that possible?
>
>
> On 5/1/06, Robert Dempsey <rdempsey@techcfl.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > We are using WEBrick. Do you know if it even pays attention to the
> > dispatch files? Thanks.
> >
> > - Rob
> >
> > Steve Koppelman wrote:
> > > Why are you using FastCGI for development mode? What''s
wrong with
> > > WEBrick or, at most, CGI? Doesn''t development against
FastCGI force
> > you
> > > to restart servers or processes a whole lot more than
you''d otherwise
> > > need to?
> > >
> > > If you don''t need FastCGI for development, your problem
disappears
> > > because Windows ignores it under those circumstances and you can
> > simply
> > > set it to the Unixy path on both platforms.
> > >
> > > If you''ve got a good reason for doing development
against FCGI, I
> > > suppose you could have a second dispatch.fcgi called somthing
else (
> > e.g.
> > > dispatch-win32.fcgi) and refer to that in the webserver conf on
your
> > > windows boxes and refer to the original one on the Unixy boxes.
No?
> > >
> >
> >
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Robert Dempsey wrote:
> We are using WEBrick. Do you know if it even pays attention to the 
> dispatch files? Thanks.
WEBrick doesn''t use the dispatch files.

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Thanks everyone for your help with this. Problem solved.

- Rob D.

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