The purpose of the RubyOnIIS project is to create a consistent setup procedure and helper applications to make life easier when trying to get Ruby on Rails running together with the Microsoft Internet Information Server, a.k.a. IIS.

Here's a fact of life about Rails: Deployment of a Rails application can get complicated. Fast.

The SCGI Rails Runner (SRR) is a very small Ruby script for running Ruby On Rails for high-speed deployment of your applications in production. SRR is intended as a replacement for the ancient FastCGI code base and bring some big advantages to Rails deployment for production operations

Liquid is a template engine which I wrote for very specific requirements * It has to have beautiful and simple markup. Template engines which don't produce good looking markup are no fun to use. * It needs to be non evaling and secure. Liquid templates are made so that users can edit them. You don't want to run code on your server which your users wrote. * It has to be stateless.

Locomotive is a flexible one-click solution to Ruby on Rails development for Mac OS X 10.3 . In one self-contained application, it gives you a fully functional Rails development platform including: (but not limited to) The framework: Ruby on Rails The favored webserver: lighttpd with FastCGI An embedded database: SQLite

Sam Ruby 的一篇极具煽动性的Presentation。

This platform focuses on scalability which it achieves by splitting up the data load among many machines.

MICHEAL说自己用了40个小时来做这个网站，而架构这个网站只用了5个小时，其余35个小时都是在完善细节，之前他尝试过用COLDFUSION来做，但做出来的东西太“静态”了，如果我没理解错，作者所要达到的“动态”效果其实就是指WEB2.0的读写交互的效果。看看WORDPHOTO这个网站，从注册，添加，搜索，对图片评论，添加标签....等等，大多数元素都是可编缉的：如果要用PHP实现这个你可能会写到吐血。