Giving up on mongrel_cluster on windows
No Responses December 30th, 2007 | Ekerete.
That’s it! I’ve given up trying to deploy a Rails app with capistrano from windows. Just spent two days trying to set this up (even tried cygwin) with no luck.
The solution? VirtualBox. I have just gone from installing Ubuntu server in a virtual machine to deploying the application in thirty minutes. It’s a bit long-winded commiting to subversion from windows and changing to the virtual machine to use capistrano but it works so I’m happy.
Why am I still working in windows? I ask myself that all the time but I’ve got so much stuff installed and set up on my laptop the thought of changing is depressing. Also use Visual Studio Express once in a while and that only works on windows.
Two thumbs up for VirtualBox.
Update: Finally got Capistrano to work on windows. About time!
