Ruby on Rails

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:25 PM, ja <joaodiasafonso@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good evening.
> I've consulted wikis, old threads, forums, everything, in order to
> understand/find a way to deploy RoR with minimum effort.
> I've developed it using WebBrick to check functionality; now I want to
> deploy it in a net apache server (using plesk) which I am client of.
> It seems plesk supports Ruby, and I just need to click on a "fastCGI"
> checkbox to have such support.
> Considering Ruby and Rails are installed and running properly in
> server, how to deploy the app? Why doesn't a simple copy/paste work
> (it is always wanted a known repository)? What changes should be made
> in code side? There are some differente alternatives in Ruby site, but
> always forcing some configs on server side. Without make any changes
> in server, what is the proper way of doing it?
> I am always getting these errors:
> [Tue Mar 23 12:56:33 2012] [warn] [client xxxxx] (104)Connection reset
> by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server
> [Tue Mar 23 12:56:33 2012] [error] [client xxxxx] Premature end of
> script headers: dispatch.fcgi
> which seems not detailed enough to understand what to do next. Some
> say it's RoR missing gems, others say it's because of file
> permissions, also .htaccess hidden file overriding the proper one...
> I've checked and tested most of it without success.
> Any hint?
> Thanks in advance.

I don't *think* a Rails application will work on FastCGI. For using
apache, you will need Phusion Passenger[1]. However, I don't know if
your hosting solution supports it or will do, you should ask.

If Passenger is supported, then you only need to define a virtual host
and point the DocumentRoot to the Rails app public directory.
Considerng all your dependencies are installed, you can just copy your
code to the directory defined in the virtual host.

There are other solutions, but they don't require "minimum effort".
If you can't solve this with your current hosting, I would consider
Heroku, as Fernando and Paul suggested.

For what its worth, Heroku is not just for every app, and not because
it doesn't support it but because pricing can get too high too soon,
depending on your needs.

If Heroku doesn't fit your needs for any reason, I would recommend a
VPS solution.

Hope this help.

Cheers!

[1]http://modrails.com

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