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  • 11-12-2006, 2:10 PM

    Support for other application frameworks

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    Hi,

    The addition of a FastCGI handler for IIS is great news! What's the likelihood of support of application frameworks (such as Perl, Ruby on Rails etc.) other than PHP? We use ActivePerl from ActiveState with IIS6 already, and would love to be able to use FastCGI for a lot of the applications we maintain.

     
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  • 11-13-2006, 5:38 PM In reply to

    • bills
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    Re: Support for other application frameworks

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    Robbie -

     The fastCGI handler is meant to be a general purpose feature of IIS, and will support any compliant fastCGI application including PERL, Ruby, etc.  assuming they support fastCGI.

    Point us at the application/frameworks you'd like support for, and we'll consider adding it to our test matrix.

    Bill

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  • 12-04-2006, 6:19 AM In reply to

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    Re: Support for PERL CGI::Fast

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    I'm very interesing in fastCGI support for PERL application. Please include it in your test matrix. I think there are a lot of interested people since ActiveState PerlEx project was closed (I even don't know a reason)

     
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  • 12-08-2006, 8:55 AM In reply to

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    Re: Support for other application frameworks

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    Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.com/) support would be excellent!  I actually need this in production yesterday, so it would be great to get vendor supported FCGI rather than the hacking I'm doing now to make it work (actually it still doesn't work and I may have to switch to Apache.)
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  • 12-08-2006, 1:45 PM In reply to

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    Re: Support for other application frameworks

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    We would love to support RoR on the FastCGI platform.  Unfortunately, we dont have a lot of expertise with it inhouse.  Any information you can provide to help us get started, and test it, would definitely have a huge impact on our ability to make sure it works for the next release.

    Thanks,

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  • 12-08-2006, 2:10 PM In reply to

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    Re: Support for other application frameworks

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    Mike,

    Thanks for the response!

    Before your response I had posted about this to the rails core team mailing list (I am not on the team, just on the list) and it has recieved some response, so you may want to check it out (it's a Google Groups mailing list):

    http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/browse_thread/thread/b88ad36ddd82477e

    I would love to test, and help however I can.  Is there a more recent version than the 'technical preview' I have already downloaded?  I am a Mac / Linux guy, and am a bit shaky in Windows, but I am deploying my site on Windows Server 2003 so I need to learn it.  Right now I am using mongrel as the webserver because it 'just works'.  But I need to find a better solution because mongrel has no NTLM authentication module.

    Thanks,

    Peter 

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