• Registered: 2013-01-03
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Topic: Help on deploying a Rails application onto a web server

I have a web server running on DreamHost and am trying to put a Rails app i made onto the server.

I followed this tutorial on the DreamHost wiki site: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Getting_Start … y_on_Rails
and the basic rails start-up page worked on my domain site.

However when I tried to upload any other app that was even slightly more complex than the

  • Registered: 2012-12-29
  • Posts: 8

Re: Help on deploying a Rails application onto a web server

4 things to check first:

    1.You enabled Ruby on Rails Passenger (mod_rails) for the domain name
    2.You point your domain name configuration to the public directory of your application.
    3.Your Rails Version (As of 8/5/2009 Rails is up to 2.3.3 but Dreamhost is at 2.2.2)
    4.All your gem dependencies are available at Dreamhost, in your home folder, or are unpacked in your rails application.

  • Registered: 2013-01-03
  • Posts: 4

Re: Help on deploying a Rails application onto a web server

How would I unpack my gem dependencies in my rails application? Is this similar to freezing them?

  • Registered: 2012-12-29
  • Posts: 8

Re: Help on deploying a Rails application onto a web server

Freezing a gem is when you install a copy of a gem into your application's vendor/gems directory. This directory is checked and any gems found there take precedence over gems installed on your server.

I am not sure but I don't think it is similar to unpacking of gem dependencies.