Passenger on Windows

Question

Is there any way to get Passenger running on a Windows machine? It doesn't appear so, but it seems like many Stackoverflow'ers have used Passenger a lot and I was wondering if its possible.

Answer 1

Hongli (the author) said in 2008:

Hi Mitja. We have no plans to port Passenger on Windows. Windows lacks the proper facilities to implement Passenger efficiently. Passenger on Windows will be very, very inefficient, which can give both Ruby on Rails as well as Passenger a bad name.

So to me it looks like your out of luck here. Just run a VM and do your Rails work on it. Ruby/Rails is painfully slow on windows. Simple things like Script/Console take upwards of 10 seconds (and only a second on a linux VM)

Answer 2

You can use Helicon Zoo instead.

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