Ruby on Rails application deployment for Microsoft solutions is quite tough issue for rails developers, despite Helicon Zoo rising could solve that. However still no solution for early versions Windows OS, especially for the server older than IIS 7. This talk is regarding how to deploy rails application by setting IIS 6 as a reverse proxy server. Through handling requests and passing to rails server, the deployment for our rails application on Windows can be more easier with efficiency.

1. RubyConf2014 LightningTalk
Howto deployyour Rails
application onWindows
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2. shesee
Rails developer @ Taipei
» Ruby Taiwan Community
» Ruby Conf 2014 staff
» Rails Girls Coach
» Traffic-related engineering
» 5xRuby Inc.
» Optimis Corp.

3. Theysaid
Rails hatesWindows

4. Theysaid
Rails hatesWindows
True story.

5. True stroy
A rails application
needs to be deployed on Windows server 2003

6. True stroy
A rails application
needs to be deployed on Windows server 2003
>> 2013.years - 2003.years
=> 10 years

7. Enviroment
10+years old machine
» Windows server 2003
» IIS 6

8. There's PlanA
Helicon Zoo
A repository of web frameworks and applications
for Microsoft IIS
http://www.helicontech.com/zoo/

9. There's PlanA
Helicon Zoo
A repository of web frameworks and applications
for Microsoft IIS
Butnotforthe 10years oldWindows system

10. Plan B
Setting Rails enviroment
RailsInstaller(http://railsinstaller.org)
It's simple and friendly for Microsoft users :)

11. Plan B
Setting Rails enviroment
There's a bisic rails application,
you might need to be
$ gem install bundler
$ gem install rake
$ bundle install
$ rake assets:precompile
etc...

12. Plan B
gem 'thin'
This is our rails application server,
which actually response the request.
$ thin --prefix=/yourapp -e production

13. Plan B
Reverse proxyserver
This is our plan:
Make IIS 6 been a reverse proxy server !

14. Plan B
Reverse proxyserver - IIS6with IIRF2.1
We need something
to turn IIS6 to be a reverse proxy server
IIRF 2.1
(http://iirf.codeplex.com/releases/view/58734)

15. Plan B
Eastinstall
Next, next and more next

16. Plan B
Successful<3
Checkout ISAPI

17. Plan B
Putitunder IIS 6
Put the "public" folder under IIS 6
[Setting its URI]
And adding an IIRF.ini (config), it suppports regex

18. Plan B
Putitunder IIS 6
Put the "public" folder under IIS 6
[Setting its URI]
And adding an IIRF.ini (config), it suppports regex
Example
RewriteLog AppPathlogiirf.log
ProxyPass ^/(.*)$ http://localhost:3000/$1 [I]

19. Plan B
Howeveryou geta nackedwebsite
Cause the URI path, asset pipeline can't be the
default path now.

20. Plan B
Howeveryou geta nackedwebsite
Cause the URI path, asset pipeline can't be the
default path now.
Solution
Also put the "assets" folder under IIS 6
Original: http://domain
New: http://domain/URI

21. Plan B
Reviewouraction
1.Install RubyInstaller

22. Plan B
Reviewouraction
1.Install RubyInstaller
2.Install gem & bundler

23. Plan B
Reviewouraction
1.Install RubyInstaller
2.Install gem & bundler
3.Install IIRF 2.1

24. Plan B
Reviewouraction
1.Install RubyInstaller
2.Install gem & bundler
3.Install IIRF 2.1
4.Put on IIS

25. Plan B
Reviewouraction
1.Install RubyInstaller
2.Install gem & bundler
3.Install IIRF 2.1
4.Put on IIS
5.Add public/iirf.ini

26. Youjustneedto
click "next"

27. Thanks.
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