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Using the web server on Windows

Using the web server on Windows - Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Using the web server on Windows

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- [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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