Editing Serving a Rails App on IIS 7

[[Category:Ruby]] [[Category:IIS]] [[Category:Web Development]]

== Overview ==

The rails application can't be exposed to http requests, at least on IIS. The basic work-around is to use FastCGI to handle all requests via the ruby executable. 

The thing that can cause problems there is that all requests include static files such as images, which ruby won't handle the way that you want.

There are pages that describe how to configure IIS directly to pass the requests to FastCGI piped through the ruby executable, but it seems dicey. Not a lot of people do it.

* [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-rails-apps-using-passenger-with-nginx-on-centos-6-5 Ruby on Rails With IIS 7] (MSDN Blogs)

== Helicon Zoo ==

I think basically this is a module that you can download that will handle everything described in the [[Serving_a_Rails_App_on_IIS_7#Overview overview]]. 

* Install '''Microsoft Web Platform Installer''', and run it.
* Add the Helicon Zoo feed. 
** '''Options''' link at the bottom right corner of the '''Spotlight''' tab page.
** Add a feed: `http://www.helicontech.com/zoo/feed.html`. 
** After clicking the '''OK''' button, a "Zoo" tab will be added at the top of the application.
* '''Zoo''' tab > '''Packages''' > select the Ruby package.