Basics of running multiple internal ruby/rails apps on an IIS server - is something like passenger required for this situation?

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I am going to be deploying about a dozen rails apps on an IIS server. These apps are behind out firewall for internal use only. They will all be low usage but critical apps.

The current setup is

IIS running on server 2012
Rails 4 is running on iis installed via the webplatforminstaller.
We will be using MS sql server
Apps uploaded from the laptop to the server do run.
There will be about 15 apps running. We can add another server if necessary.
Nothing else will be running on that server
E.g. an app might be located in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\apps\sales and another in \hr. etc.

What I've read about deploying multiple rails apps seems to be geared toward public facing sites. I don't see much about private sites using a server ip/folder setup

Question: - Can multiple apps be run without adding a tool such as passenger?

Um, Passenger is a Linux/Unix application which works with nginx or Apache and won't do you any good on IIS. If I had any choice whatsoever I would choose not to deploy on IIS/MsSQL. There are very few rails shops that do and the adapters etc are not in the ballpark of what is available for Unix/Postgres/outside the MS box. Lots of headaches - very few benefits. — max
– max, Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 22:52

Azolo · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-16 13:35:39Z

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It is possible using the IIS HttpPlatformHandler extension. Scott Hanselman did a good write up on it that explains how to use it.

Although, in that blog post it's suggested to use JRuby and Tomcat. I don't think that is necessary, however I would suggest using puma as your webserver.

answered Nov 16, 2015 at 13:35

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Chris Mendla Over a year ago

Thanks- I got it running with a combo of Puma and Jruby.

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