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Okay, before you guys go nuts — this is just a small site, temporary setup. Right now I’m having some internal folks remote into the server and use the site through webrick via the dev command: ruby script/server. Not exactly ideal.
I’m just starting Rails dev and I want to know a better way to handle hosting on a Windows Pro box. Again, just temporary so please be gentle 🙂
As far as I know, mod_rails isn’t an alternative.
Mongrel plays very nice on windows, though, so you can set up a few mongrels and have IIS or Apache proxy to them. Or just use Mongrel directly. Before mod_rails, mongrel was the de facto way to deploy on any platform, so it’s a very viable choice.
The one time I was forced to deploy on Windows, however, I installed Ubuntu via virtualbox (could also use VMWare or whatever, of course) and deployed on that. Works like a dream, and I got to work with a sensible OS. Phew. SSH and stuff. Can’t live without it. Remote desktop isn’t exactly my kind of thing.