Not that you'd know it, since this blog is so new, but I haven't done much with RoR in a little while. I've been focusing on .NET work and learning Python. The other day I wanted to take one of my older RoR projects and install it in a virtual server instance and a virtual desktop instance of Ubuntu to see if I could tell any difference in the speed of the app. All of this in an attempt to decide how to rebuild my MythTV boxes. They currently run on top of the Gnome desktop and I'm thinking about using a lighter-weight window manager. The balance here needs to be between ease of setup and potential performance gain.

Anyway, I poked around for a tutorial I remembered seeing about installing RoR on Apache with the fcgi and couldn't find it. I found another tutorial discussing RoR with Mongrel on Feisty, but that's not exactly what I wanted to do. Now, I'm sure there are some excellent tutorials out there, but I'm a bit impatient and I want to start working on something. Time to write my own by aggregating some of the other excellent tutorials out there. This way I can refer back when I decide to do it again... and maybe someone else out there wants to do exactly what I'm doing. I know there are different ways that are "better"... Mongrel... lighttpd... whatever. Most of my stuff (Python, RoR, PHP) runs under Apache and that's what I want to do here.

The HowTo is posted under my HowTo section.