Hello, I am new to Rails and the Linux world coming from 12 years of advanced VB programming. I am writing to try and clear up some confusion on my part about installing Mongrel.
Please don't take this as a rant, I do appreciate the effort that y'all put into the community, but as a newbie, I was, and still am confused. I want to learn about Mongrel, so it found http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/started.html and followed the simple instructions: $ sudo gem install mongrel$ cd myrailsapp$ mongrel_rails start -d Which runs Mongrel in the background. You can stop it with: $ mongrel_rails stop What I found was far more than that, and to be honest, I have no idea whether or not I installed correctly. When I ran sudo gem install mongrel, I was presented with a series of options that I had no idea of how to respond. Install required dependency daemons? [Yn] y Install required dependency fastthread? [Yn] y Install required dependency gem_plugin? [Yn] y Install required dependency cgi_multipart_eof_fix? [Yn] y After the install, the command "mongrel_rails start -d" was not recognized $ mongrel_rails start -d bash: mongrel_rails: command not found soo... I gave up and did what I had been doing, which is script/server. Lo-and-behold, mongrel starts up... ??? $ script/server => Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick) => Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server ** Ruby version is not up-to-date; loading cgi_multipart_eof_fix ** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000 ** Starting Rails with development environment... ** Rails loaded. ** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins ** Signals ready. TERM => stop. USR2 => restart. INT => stop (no restart). ** Rails signals registered. HUP => reload (without restart). It might not work well. ** Mongrel available at 0.0.0.0:3000 ** Use CTRL-C to stop. I guess that that the correct cmd would be "script/server -d ??? OK, it's not the end of the world, but it sure threw me for a loop.Like I said, I appreciate all that you do, but maybe some of this could be put into the "Getting Started" page. Thanks TW Scannell
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