Porting Java to Ruby

Andy — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:11:50 +0000

Long time ago I wrote a Java engine for figuring out valid Chinese Chess (Xiangqi) moves. I was going to build it into a website, something like Red Hot Pawn. Well, it seems that Ruby might be much quicker to develop the database and presentation parts of a website, so I decided to port my Java code across to Ruby. It was very easy, both being very object oriented. It works just fine. Now, all I have to do is the site itself - which should be quick in Ruby.

Ruby on Rails on Apache

Andy — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:11:18 +0000

I just got Rails working on Apache, which is pretty cool, and fairly straight forward really. My big complaint about the whole process is, though, that the tip below was necessary to make apache stop just returning errors…

Note from porter.ea:

One additional edit that I found necessary was to add “#!c:/pathto/rubybin/rubyw” (note the “w”) at the top of the “C:\appname\public\dispatch.fcgi” file.

It’s worth noting the bit about (for performance):
FastCgiConfig -maxClassProcesses 1 -maxProcesses 1 -minProcesses 1 -processSlack 1

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