Perhaps the weirdest creature to come out of the iPhone 2.0/3G launch paraphernalia is the iPhone Configuration Web Utility. It is a Rails app, downloaded and installed on your local machine. It literally starts a server on port 3000, as a service using WEBrick on Windows and as a launchd job using Mongrel on Mac.
and the award from most completly irrelevant post to an above topoic goes to…
It’s spam, spam, spam, spammity-spam.
…from a spammer too stupid to realize that he didn’t have to munge the URL, apparently…
Wow, the iPhone actually *hosting* a Rails app. I’m smiles all over!
“It literally starts a server on port 3000, as a service using WEBrick on Windows and as a launchd job using Mongrel on Mac”
It is hosted on your PC, not the iphone.
I stand corrected.