[Rails] Re: Pardon my asking - Rails on IIS?

[Florian Groß]

Soulhuntre wrote:

> Hers the catch, I am not going to be able to put I an Apache server just for 
> this. In order to bring the wonder of Rails in I need to be able to plug it into 
> an existing IIS server on Windows 2003 server.
> 
> We have the ability to do the URL re-writing (there are several components that 
> will do that) so that isn’t an issue – the question is will the normal CGI 
> executable method of using Ruby lead to abysmal performance? If so, how do we 
> help overcome that?

While I'm not experienced with this myself I can try citing an external 
source.

http://bitmask.co.uk/notes/CategoryView.aspx?category=Ruby says:

"The performance of using rubyw.exe as the application mapping leaves a 
lot to be desired, so I'll probably focus on trying FastCGI next."

Perhaps you could join efforts?