Instant Rails -- Are You Using it?

[Curt Hibbs]

Its been a little over three weeks since I released the first preview
of Instant Rails. In that time there have been over 3,000 downloads,
but very little little feedback.

This tells me either that it is not being used (which would be bad) or
that it is being used but no one is having any significant problems
(which would be very good). So, if you are using it, but are just not
having any problems, I'd like to here from you just to get that
feedback.

The final 1.0 release for Instant Rails will be sometime after the
first of the year because I want it to include the released version of
Ruby 1.8.4 and the final release of Rails 1.0.

My plans also include upgrading to Apache 2 (currently it contains
Apache 1.3.33) as well as a more recent release of MySQL. Please help
me with a couple of decisions/priorities here:

1) Is moving to Apache 2 important to you, or or you happy with Apache
1.3.33 for the time being?

2) Should MySQL be upgraded to the latest 4.x release (currently
4.1.15) or would you prefer it be upgraded to 5.0.x?

Thanks,
Curt

 

[Curt Hibbs]

I've received a couple inquiries from people who missed the original
announcement of Instant Rails. If you are in category and want to know
more, go here:

http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/

Curt

 

[Josh Knowles]

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Curt,

Being stuck in a windows world I definetly love the concept but I have not
tried out the app yet as I heard that everything was not yet runnable as a
service. If this has been fixed (or was never broke) then please let me
know.

As far as Apache/MySQL version. I'd prefer Apache 2 + MySQL 5.

Josh

Its been a little over three weeks since I released the first preview
of Instant Rails. In that time there have been over 3,000 downloads,
but very little little feedback.

This tells me either that it is not being used (which would be bad) or
that it is being used but no one is having any significant problems
(which would be very good). So, if you are using it, but are just not
having any problems, I'd like to here from you just to get that
feedback.

The final 1.0 release for Instant Rails will be sometime after the
first of the year because I want it to include the released version of
Ruby 1.8.4 and the final release of Rails 1.0.

My plans also include upgrading to Apache 2 (currently it contains
Apache 1.3.33) as well as a more recent release of MySQL. Please help
me with a couple of decisions/priorities here:

1) Is moving to Apache 2 important to you, or or you happy with Apache
1.3.33 for the time being?

2) Should MySQL be upgraded to the latest 4.x release (currently
4.1.15) or would you prefer it be upgraded to 5.0.x?

Thanks,
Curt

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[Jakub Hegenbart]

Curt Hibbs napsal(a):

Its been a little over three weeks since I released the first preview
of Instant Rails. In that time there have been over 3,000 downloads,
but very little little feedback.

This tells me either that it is not being used (which would be bad) or
that it is being used but no one is having any significant problems
(which would be very good). So, if you are using it, but are just not
having any problems, I'd like to here from you just to get that
feedback.

The final 1.0 release for Instant Rails will be sometime after the
first of the year because I want it to include the released version of
Ruby 1.8.4 and the final release of Rails 1.0.

My plans also include upgrading to Apache 2 (currently it contains
Apache 1.3.33) as well as a more recent release of MySQL. Please help
me with a couple of decisions/priorities here:

1) Is moving to Apache 2 important to you, or or you happy with Apache
1.3.33 for the time being?

2) Should MySQL be upgraded to the latest 4.x release (currently
4.1.15) or would you prefer it be upgraded to 5.0.x?

Thanks,
Curt

Im in the "Downlodaded-but-hadn't-tried-yet" category. :-D For me,
Firebird support a key feature. The "Instant Rails with Firebird" would
also be smaller would consume less resources compared with a MySQL-based
version. The size of the unpacked archive didn't make me happy at all.
The PHP could also go away. (And yes, since I'm definitely
interested in Rails development, I'm going to to write a Firebird admin
interface for Rails. If I had to deploy a Rails solution anywhere
outside my computer, I wouln't certainly want to deploy "PHP on Rails". :-D)

I consider Apache 2 a much nicer alternative.

Jakub

 

[James Britt]

Im in the "Downlodaded-but-hadn't-tried-yet" category.

Same here. I'm probably more interested in learning how Instant Rails
was created, so I can create my own Instant Apps, such as Instant Nitro.



Thanks,


James


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[Jakub Hegenbart]

James Britt napsal(a):

Same here. I'm probably more interested in learning how Instant Rails
was created, so I can create my own Instant Apps, such as Instant Nitro.

As with Linux Live scripts that allow you to creat a live linux media
from almost any source, it would extremely cool to have a
"metadistribution" that would allow one to create Instant-Anything from
source packages. I got an average 50% performance boost with Ruby
interpreter just with using proper GCC switches on my Sempron 2500+
machine. The same for Rails, the "hello world" page (i mean the RoR
welcome screen) througput was 130% higher. (I'm sure this is no measure
of real performance, but I'm sure it _will_ be noticeable as well.) And
you could alway get the latest package versions - Ruby, Rails, DB.
Sounds nice to me. ))

Jakub

 

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Its been a little over three weeks since I released the first preview
of Instant Rails. In that time there have been over 3,000 downloads,
but very little little feedback.

This tells me either that it is not being used (which would be bad) or
that it is being used but no one is having any significant problems
(which would be very good). So, if you are using it, but are just not
having any problems, I'd like to here from you just to get that
feedback.

I would love to give it a shot but it's windows only. Something like Instan=
t
Rails would be awsome for packaging with existing rails apps. A great way t=
o
distribute software that you can pretty much just unzip and run anywhere.
One thing I found out fairly quickly is that your typical linux user isn't
going to have all the bits and pieces that rails needs, such as fastcgi or
scgi. Webrick is way too unstable. Application bugs can cause webrick to
just die quite often, and what good is a webserver that absolutely requires
no bugs in your application before it will run without crashing?

Chris

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[Kirk Haines]

such as fastcgi or scgi. Webrick is way too unstable. Application bugs can
cause webrick to just die quite often, and what good is a webserver that
absolutely requires no bugs in your application before it will run without
crashing?

I think webrick is being unfairly maligned here. I use webrick all the time
when developing applications, and it is both adequately fast and completely
stable.

I can throw 10 million requests through it (I've done so in application
testing before). I can intentionally or accidentally cause every conceivable
type of application error. I can hit it with massive numbers of concurrent
requests. I have delivered standalone instances of sites and apps to
customers, running just on webrick, that they have let random people play
with at trade shows. It has never crashed on me. Ever.

If it crashes with Rails, that is a Rails problem, not a webrick problem.


Kirk Haines

 

[Curt Hibbs]

I would love to give it a shot but it's windows only. Something like Inst= ant
Rails would be awsome for packaging with existing rails apps. A great way= to
distribute software that you can pretty much just unzip and run anywhere.
One thing I found out fairly quickly is that your typical linux user isn'= t
going to have all the bits and pieces that rails needs, such as fastcgi o= r
scgi. Webrick is way too unstable. Application bugs can cause webrick to
just die quite often, and what good is a webserver that absolutely requir= es
no bugs in your application before it will run without crashing?

Version 2 of Instant Rails will be designed to run on Linux, BSD, and
OSX (as well as Windows).

Curt

 

[davem1957]

Curt,
in Rails terms you are my hero! I have had many tries to get Rails
working, but without sucess until I installed Instant Rails. Thank you
for the time and effort you put into the project.
David Moore.