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[XP] Netplay+ Server Question

Alright, I was just wondering, would it be possible to run the server program for Netplay Plus 2.0 on a webhost such as DreamHost? I thought it might be, considering that it is possible to run Ruby programs on a web server, but I have no idea how I would go about it.

Any ideas?
 
Sadly it's not possible. Your host only run ruby on rails, a framework to create web applications, ruby in that case is a bit like php... so it only works if you call a page.
RoR use a routing system, from the url, to display and execute the page you want:
something like "http://myapp.com/admin_panel/create_user"
would go to the controller "admin_panel" and load the action "create_user" and display the html code for that page stored in a rhtml file.
furthermore, there is actually no folder "admin_panel" nor html file called "create_user" in that folder.

ANyway RoR is a very powerful system, that allow rapid web app creation... though it's a bit tricky at first to understand the way it works as it's really different from how you'd build an app with php.
 
Hmm. Thanks trebor. I'm honestly not sure I'll be able to do something like this with RoR though, as it's much much too confusing for me.I'll look more into it later, but I really think I might be better off using PHP and a different engine than RMXP.
 

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