The version 0.3 of ROROX is released. ( 8.7M ). ROROX is a package providing Ruby, Rails plus dependencies and other gems, rails_scgi, and Apache SCGI module, to be installed over a XAMPP (XAMPP = an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl) installation. The aim is to get close to a "one-click" installer for Linux (a la Locomotive or Instant Rails).
What's new in this version?:
How to install?: (Read the README file before you do anything)
The install script copies the required files into your XAMPP directory, patches httpd.conf, and restarts XAMPP. If everything worked, you should be able to see a small sample Rails application at http://localhost/emaildir/.
Enjoy!
What's new in this version?:
- Upgraded to Ruby 1.8.4
- Added SCGI support: mod_scgi, rails_scgi, cmdparse, highline
- Removed FastCGI support (mod_fastcgi, Ruby FastCGI bindings)
- Added apply_scgi.sh script, to setup SCGI process for a Rails application
- Modified emaildir demo application so now uses SCGI
- Upgraded to rake 0.7.0
- Added Ruby MySQL bindings for performance increase
How to install?: (Read the README file before you do anything)
- 1. You will need to have XAMPP installed: get it from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html if you don't already have it
- 2. Unpack the rorox-dist-*.tar.gz archive into a convenient directory
- 3. Switch to the root user and connect to the directory created by unpacking the archive
- 4. Stop your XAMPP instance
- 5. Make a copy of your XAMPP instance in case these scripts break anything and you want to go back to a clean install
- 6. Make the install.sh script executable
- 7. Run the install.sh script: ./install.sh
The install script copies the required files into your XAMPP directory, patches httpd.conf, and restarts XAMPP. If everything worked, you should be able to see a small sample Rails application at http://localhost/emaildir/.
Enjoy!
12 Mar 2006 13:01:53
Does this package:
a) Stop the sillyness with mysql connection timeouts?
b) Give you a button to update all the gem files automatically?
c) How do I make the install.sh script executable on a windows machine?
d) Does XAMP with Rails work out of the box or do I have to set up my windows host files to make it point to each project?
Please answer these questions
13 Apr 2006 00:36:13
ROROX doesn't work on Windows at all, so the answer is "No" to all of your questions. On Linux, ROROX puts each project into a subdirectory of localhost, so you don't have to edit hosts files.
On any Ruby installation, you don't need a button to update gems: just use "gem install rails --with-dependencies" (to upgrade Rails, for example) from a command line.
If you are looking for a simple Rails environment for Windows, I recommend Instant Rails (http://rubyforge.org/projec...).
Hope this helps.
16 Apr 2006 23:23:42
This looks promising but I couldn't get it to work... any suggestions? I installed XAMPP (working fine) on a new install of Ubuntu. I didn't lock down XAMPP yet. Ran your install.sh and this is what it output at the end:
Patching /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf...
patching file /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf
Hunk #1 FAILED at 237.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 1155.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf.rej
Starting XAMPP...
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.5.1...
XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)...
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP: Starting emaildir...
XAMPP for Linux started.
-ben
wiseleyb@gmail.com
27 Apr 2007 03:23:11
Sweet