<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Morin</b> <<a href="mailto:rdm@cfcl.com">rdm@cfcl.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 5:11 PM -0700 1/6/07, Grant Neufeld wrote:<br>> At 2:47 PM -0800 1/6/07, Rich Morin wrote:<br>>>Now I'm looking into adding Locomotive to the mix.<br>> ...<br>>>I'll be needing to tie Rails into the existing Apache setup.
<br>><br>> Here's a (kind of) quick and dirty way ...<br><br> A famous aphorism of Butler Lampson goes:<br><br> All problems in computer science can be solved<br> by another level of indirection.<br><br> --
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer</a><br><br>I like it. One nice thing about the approach is that I can<br>have an arbitrary number of RoR (or whatever) servers. All
<br>I have to do to add a server is (basically) assign a unique<br>port number and create a new virtual host.<br><br>Anyone have any caveats to offer about this approach?</blockquote><div><br>You'll have to install the command line tool first (from the Help menu in Locomotive). Other than that, it should work well - this is more or less the reason for the existence of the command line locomotive tool...
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