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Dear Mongrel users, I would like to use Mongrel to introduce RoR on an existing Apache/PHP server. The server serves several domains, set up as virtual hosts. The idea is to install a Rails application to be used in addition to the existing configuration. Example: www.domain1.com/index.php -> Via Apache www.domain1.com/appname/controller/action -> RoR application I am at a loss how to do

I just attempted to install Mongrel on Windows. I''m not going to run it as a service, so I thought I''d select the ruby flavor (option 1). See error message below. Q: Is the ruby flavor not supported on Windows? If so, it would be useful to update the website with this info. Thanks, Mike. K:\rails\apps\helloworld>gem install mongrel Attempting local installation of

Hi, On the wiki http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/UnderstandingMigrations it says: Valid column options are: - limit - offset - null (i.e. ? :null => false? implies NOT NULL) - default (to specify default values) I was wondering what the purpose of the "offset" option is. And after looking at the API at

Hi, I have a fixture in a unit test and I see that the fixture is loaded correctly into the database table, but no instance variables are created. So now I''m stuck. More background: this is my first RoR project and I have just installed the SaltedLoginGenerator and generated its output. Running the unit tests gives an error, so I cut it down to just 1 test:

Hi, I am developing a Rails application which should be in ONE language (not English). Globalize seems overkill for this purpose (do you agree?). So I''m trying some of the approaches on the wiki. In particular: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/OverridingRailsMessagesInAnotherLanguage This *does* override the month names, but does *not* override the error messages. I''m

Hi, I''m trying to get my head around using migrations to define my initial schema. When using migrations, I want to: - Avoid creating a new migration for every small change. Limit it to one migration per checkin. - When creating a new (fresh) schema, I do not want to go through the overhead of all the migrations. These are the steps I came up with, to create the initial schema: 1.

Hi, There''s lots of stuff going on currently with choices of production deployment environments. But I''m not clear on a few things as I need to decide on a production setup where Apache is a given. A recent thread (http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/56590) seemed to favor Apache 2 with mod_fcgid. And this is supported in articles such as: