Re: [Rails] Re: Is Rails on IIS dead?

On Dec 16, 2011, at 7:24 AM, John Doe wrote:

> Pieter Hugo wrote in post #1036832:
>> Dont know about IIS but running rails on Windows is dog slow. I develop
>> on a Windows box and deploy on Linux and the speed difference is marked.
>> Have heard the same from others.
>>
>> Pieter Hugo
>
> I got a blank Rails project up and running and I noticed it takes at
> least 30-60 secs to load up the hello page on an idle server, sometimes
> much longer and this delay is highly variable. This is just crazy. From
> my research via Google it does not appear to be just an IIS problem
> either, although its apparently much worse on IIS. I have also
> discovered that there are complaints about ruby being slower by orders
> of magnitude compared to other scripting languages, rails performance
> being generally poor and an apparent self-defeating reluctance by the
> developpers to support rails properly on the worlds most popular
> commercial platform. This is a great shame, since the potential for
> development appears to be huge if the hype is to be believed but the
> above problems appear to be an obstacle to takeup.
>
> I still need to understand terms such as rack, passenger, mongrel,
> webrick etc and where they fit in but I'm already thinking of abandoning
> rails. However, before I do that, I am going to test it for comparison
> on Apache for Windows.
----
Probably should abandon RoR

If your metric is using Windows for deployment, you won't be happy with the results and that it performs poorly when deployed on Windows hardly comes as a surprise.

Your expression of Windows as critical to RoR ignores the reality that the majority of web servers are clearly not Microsoft. The developers of RoR don't worry about Windows deployment because they don't need to - as you said, there's enough hype/buzz and obviously deployment platforms for it not to be a concern. If there are users who have to go elsewhere because of their 'lockin' to Windows as the primary deployment platform, so be it.

You should file a bug report with Microsoft asking them to create ruby/rails cgi/gateway to deploy applications via IIS. Maybe the world's most popular commercial platform should learn to support middleware other than their own.

Craig

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