Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:14 PM, mikertjones <mike.jo...@zesti.com> > wrote: > >> However - massive snag! My hosting company, 1&1, does not support >> development with the RoR framework. Thier message to me was: >> 'At the moment we support the regular Ruby framework but not the Ruby >> on Rails' > > Ruby is a language, not a "framework". The statement above would be > enough to send me off looking for a new hosting company.
Agreed; that's just completely clueless tech support. As if there weren't already lots of reasons to abandon 1&1... > >> My question is this: >> Can I use Ruby on Rails as a local development framework and then >> deploy the product of that work to my hosting server which supports >> only Ruby? > > No. Well, maybe. It depends on the the details of the hosts' Ruby installation. But it probably won't be easy. > >> In other words does the output from an RoR development >> require RoR on the production server? > > Yes. Right. It's not "output" in the conventional sense: since Ruby is interpreted, you need the interpreter there on the server, just like what you're used to with PHP. The one exception would be if 1&1 supports Java. You could compile your Rails app and the JRuby interpreter into a stand-alone Java servlet... > >> If the answer is yes - RoR is required on the production server - then >> I will either abandon RoR as a dev framework or find a new hosting >> provider. > As a former PHP developer myself, I'd say to find new hosting. Rails is *amazing*. For hosting, I recommend Heroku or Slicehost. > Good luck with your decision :-) > > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroe...@gmail.com > twitter: @hassan Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org Sent from my iPhone -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
