I read where you can have Ruby on Rails running in WebSphere and I think I might try it. If I make the website in RoR in WebSphere but later want to run just ruby on rails with with Apache, can I do that? I want websphere because I’ll want it for other things but I have another problem where the same website will suffice but cannot take the overhead of websphere (but can ror).
Thanks.
Yes. You can write the pure rails app first and run it on JRuby, then convert it to WAR, install activerecord-jdbc-adapter and deploy on Websphere. Here is a nice guide: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0801_shillington/0801_shillington.html
When you are done with websphere just redeploy the app as pure rails on apache or even better on mod_passenger (and switch to normal db adapter)