Ruby On Rails on Windows with Mongrel

Question

Where is the best tutorial for getting Ruby On Rails working on a windows box with Mongrel? I'm a complete novice at server management, so the more detailed the better!

Answer 1

You can follow this tutorial, it will get you setup you can actually manage your Mongrel server as a Windows service (start/stop/restart, start on boot, manage programatically etc etc):

How to setup mongrel as a native Windows service

I'm currently using this method to manage an instance of Redmine on a Windows box and it works wonderfully.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I have found the book "Deploying Rails Applications" very useful. Specially the chapter "Deploying on Windows". It gives you step by step instructions to deploy a Rails application using Apache and Mongrel