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einari

Jun 21, 2011 @ 05:31 PM

Is it be possible to host Rails on AppHarbor with FastCGI some how?

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by friism on Jun 22, 2011 @ 07:46 PM

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    Running RoR in IIS seems to require installing a CGI/FastCGI module in IIS. Support for these are not currently enabled on AppHarbor web servers.

    It seems the IronRuby guys are trying to make a Rack implementation that runs on top of IIS. There's some related discussion here, and example code is here, the readme is here.

    If you manage to get this running on AppHarbor in an not-overly-hacky way, you'll get some sort of fancy prize.

    Also, we'd love to learn what your usecase is!

  2. 2 Posted by einari on Jun 24, 2011 @ 04:58 PM

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    Hi,
    thanks for the details.

    We're looking at different options for a platform we're working on - for the time being only implemented in .net, but we've started creating a port of it for Ruby and we're contemplating making it possible to mix and match in one application, so the IronRuby path is quite interesting - although I've heard people complain about the performance of the IronRuby runtime.

    One possibility for us would be to have the two implementations run on both AppHarbor and Heroku - since you're both on EC2, it should be possible to integrate through queuing without leaving the datacenter and get full performance of chit-chat between the two.

    I'll be investigating more.

    Thanks again.

  3. Support Staff 3 Posted by friism on Jun 24, 2011 @ 05:12 PM

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    Great, let us know if you need any help or info.

  4. friism closed this discussion on Jun 24, 2011 @ 05:12 PM.

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