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This is interesting, but Apply is going to need to show the server space a little love before people will start to seriously consider OS-X as a server target -- but they should, because they have a nice cut of developer mind share and an advantage to leverage (not that they should, but they could) with iphone/ipad web services

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I think Control Tower is primarily meant to run local web services in situations where you don't want to depend on anything except Mac OS X and MacRuby.

As you can see it has no external dependencies and is the only web server –apart from WEBrick– which runs on MacRuby without compiling any additional code.

Yeah, seriously. I can't even imagine how I would use this in production. Super expensive Xcode + built in apache that probably can't proxy to a backend server all that easily? It's just too inflexible to be seriously considered.

Here is one interesting bit from the nut-shell: "We are also interested in other non-traditional ways an embeddable Ruby web app server might be useful for native app development."

I'm not sure I understand. Xcode is free with OS X. Apache on OS X is just like any other Apache, it has mod_proxy, etc.

Not to mention you can install Nginx or any number of other web servers.

Sorry, meant Xserve. Apache can be modified, yeah, but you'd have to edit the config file manually, bypassing the graphical interface that Mac OS X server gives you.

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