title: Rails Production Web Server on windows
body: <p>I'm almost finished with the development of my first ruby on rails app. I am using windows for development. Now i want to deploy my app (most likely on iPage web hosting). the procedure described in Agile Web dev... appear to only work on MAC OS X (with passenger, etc) and didn't have much luck googling. </p>
  
  <p>My questions are:</p>
  
  <p>1- Is there a good and easy to follow tutorial/book/etc on how to set up local production server on windows (e.g. using apache and mysql (Possibly WAMP)) and porting it to a remote host?</p>
  
  <p>2- can the book "Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide" help me?</p>
  
  <p>3- Would it worth the effort that i install VMware,Ubunto (or another Unix/Linux based OS) and  do the production there?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>