Lighttpd has become popular within the Ruby on Rails community and this book will help users learn how to set up web applications and frameworks such as WordPress, Ruby on Rails, MediaWiki, trac, AjaxTerm, and more. Through this book, web developers will be able to create a lean deployment platform for their web applications.
Tired of typing ./script/server? Yeah, me too. Especially with Lighttpd / FastCGI configured for PHP at hand on my development machine - pure envy. So I gave a try with my Ruby on Rails applications. Easy as pie - first add a custom domain to your /etc/hosts: