In a situation where the main server (apache) is offline, is it ever acceptable to run the ruby on rails application on the built in webrick server? Or should I have a local apache running. I have to have it available local and it would be very rare it ever ran local but if I had to would it be best to go ahead and install apache or have a batch file that fired up the ruby script/server? everything has to work the same as the regular online apache server.
thanks.
No. Webrick is not a production web server.
Thin and unicorn would be good choices - Heroku runs thin, and Github runs unicorn.