Project was successfully presented to our client this morning. Nice to see, that we catched the attention of our competitors, as well. Now we are looking forward to the go-live of our reference site “ALI” in July and a soon release of the open-source-project Alumni on Rails for all of you, who want to know how Alumni Networking looks “on Rails”. Be patient, it’s worth waiting!

After hours of frustration with the ruby-openid lib we got a much faster and *stable* production system running with SCGIÂ instead of FastCGI.
Even if SCGi is not as well known as SCGI – save yourself from a lot of headache and don’t put too much effort in getting FastCGI running…! For us FastCGI-Processes caused problems with external connections f.ex. to OpenID Providers and while including RSS-Feeds.

SCGI install and configuration tool 15min in the whole. One small disadvantage: To keep the process running on our Solaris Server  an additional job is required. Anyway – Cheers to Zed Shaw for coding SCGI!

Some facts:

• Simultaneous support for Apache1, Apache2, and lighttpd on OSX, Linux, FreeBSD and Win32.
• Same performance as FastCGI and better performance than other methods.
• Is a single cross-platform Ruby script that even runs on win32 (with some restrictions).
• Works with SCGI modules for Apache, Apache2, and Lighttpd webservers.
• Simple to install, run, and configure.
• tbc..

See Zed Shaw’s Site for more details about SCGI…

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This Weblog is intended to document the project work of ALI the Alumni System of the Department of Business Informatics at University of Cooperative Education Ravensburg.

ALI is the reference project of the open-source alumni networking platform “Alumni on Rails“, developed by students. Alumni on Rails is non-commercial and available under the GPL license.

Alumni on Rails is developed using the Ruby on Rails framework.