Is is possible to install Ruby on Rails alongside WampServer (and keep WampServer's Apache/MySQL installs)?
WAMP, therefore, is a localhost server for Windows Operating Systems that lets you manage, create, test, and develop websites without having to use a remote web server.
I installed Ruby on Rails alongside WampServer. Here is how to do it:
Replace C:\wamp\
in the following text by your own WampServer's install repository.
Installing Ruby:
C:\wamp\ruby\
.Add Ruby's bin repository in your PATH environment variable:
;C:\wamp\ruby\bin
to the Path variable.Installing DevKit:
Download DevKit:
c:\wamp\ruby\DevKit
.cd /d c:\wamp\ruby\DevKit
.ruby dk.rb init
.
- c:\wamp\ruby
to the end of config.yml
.ruby dk.rb install
Installing Rails and the Mongrel server:
Open the command line and type:
gem install rails
Create your first Rails application by opening the command line from C:\wamp\www\rails\
and typing:
rails hello
Install the Mongrel server and Windows Mongrel service, making sure to run the command line as administrator:
gem install mongrel and gem install mongrel_service
Install a Windows service for your Rails application:
mongrel_rails service::install -N ruby-hello -c c:\wamp\www\rails\hello -p 3001 -e development
Start your Mongrel service:
net start ruby-hello
You can now access your Rails application at http://localhost:3001/
.
Integrating with Apache
Enable mod_proxy in httpd.conf
Open httpd.conf (c:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.x.x\conf\httpd.conf) and uncomment the following line:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
Forward your traffic to your Mongrel server. Add the following text to your httpd.conf (or extra/httpd-vhosts.conf if it's included in your httpd.conf):
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName hello.com ServerAlias *.hello.com ProxyPass / http://localhost:3001/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3001 </VirtualHost>
Add hello.com to your hosts file. Open c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
in Notepad and add the following line:
127.0.0.1 www.hello.com hello.com
You can now go to http://www.hello.com and it should load your Rails application.
References:
Yes, There is InstantRails
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