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Using the web server on Windows - Ruby on Rails Tutorial
From the course: Installing and Running Ruby on Rails 6
Using the web server on Windows
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll spend a few minutes talking about web servers. Ruby on Rails works in conjunction with a web server to serve up files to a browser. The most common web servers for posting a project on a production server for the world to use are Apache and NGINX. Those are robust and full-featured web servers that are great for handling internet traffic from hundreds of users. There are also some smaller web servers. Passenger, Unicorn, and Puma, for example. These aren't as robust and don't have as many features. They can be used on their own as a small simple web server, but they're also often used with Apache or NGINX, serving as a front end. When we're developing websites, we won't need a heavy duty web server. After all, there will only be one person connecting to the web site at a time. One of these smaller ones can easily do the job and it will allow us to avoid the installation and…
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Running Ruby on Rails on Windows1m 49s
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Enable Windows subsystem for Linux2m 13s
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Install Linux on Windows4m 11s
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Install Ruby on Windows for a Rails project9m 15s
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Install Ruby on Rails on Windows2m 13s
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Install MySQL on Windows for a project database6m 23s
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Install MySQL Ruby gems on Windows1m 21s
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Install JavaScript tools for Ruby on Rails5m 27s
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Using the web server on Windows1m 28s
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Choosing a text editor on Windows for Rails development3m 31s
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