Ruby on Rails is an application stack that provides developers with a framework to quickly create a variety of web applications.<\/p>\n
Ruby on Rails does take a little while to install on a virtual server, but luckily there are a lot of helpful tools to make this process as easy as possible.<\/p>\n
You can run this tutorial on your droplet as a user with sudo privileges. You can check out how to set that up here:\u00a0Ubuntu Server Setup<\/a><\/p>\n Before we do anything else, we should run a quick update to make sure that all of the packages we download to our VPS are up to date:<\/p>\n Once that’s done, we can start installing RVM, Ruby Version Manager. This is a great program that lets you use several versions of Ruby on one server; however, in this case, we will just use it to install the latest version of Ruby on the droplet.<\/p>\n If you do not have curl on your system, you can start by installing it:<\/p>\n To install RVM, open terminal and type in this command:<\/p>\n After it is done installing, load RVM.<\/p>\n In order to work, RVM has some of its own dependancies that need to be installed. You can see what these are:<\/p>\n In the text that RVM shows you, look for this paragraph.<\/p>\n Just follow the instructions to get your system up to date with all of the required dependancies.<\/p>\n Once you are using RVM, installing Ruby is easy.<\/p>\n Ruby is now installed. However, since we accessed it through a program that has a variety of Ruby versions, we need to tell the system to use 1.9.3 by default.<\/p>\n The next step makes sure that we have all the required components of Ruby on Rails. We can continue to use RVM to install gems; type this line into terminal.<\/p>\n Once everything is set up, it is time to install Rails.<\/p>\n To start, open terminal and type in:<\/p>\n This process may take a while, be patient with it. Once it finishes you will have Ruby on Rails installed on your droplet.<\/p>\n If you want to run Rails application on Apache web server, I’d recommand using gem Phussion Passenger as so called “middleware”.<\/p>\n …and follow instructions during processing (install required dependencies using sudo apt-get <dependencies> and update httpd.conf directives for apache web server to load passenger modules)<\/p>\n Make a symbolic link from your rails application’s ‘PUBLIC’ folder to web server:<\/p>\n Create virtual host in your Apache with at least the following settings<\/p>\n About Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails is an application stack that provides developers with a framework to quickly create a variety of web applications. Ruby on Rails does take a little while to install on a virtual server, but … Continue reading Step One\u2014 Install Ruby with RVM<\/h2>\n
\nsudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n
sudo apt-get install curl<\/pre>\n
curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable<\/pre>\n
source ~\/.rvm\/scripts\/rvm<\/pre>\n
rvm requirements<\/pre>\n
Additional Dependencies:\r\n# For Ruby \/ Ruby HEAD (MRI, Rubinius, & REE), install the following:\r\n ruby: \/usr\/bin\/apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion<\/pre>\n
rvmsudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion<\/pre>\n
Step Two\u2014Install Ruby<\/h2>\n
\nrvm install 1.9.3<\/pre>\n
rvm use 1.9.3 --default<\/pre>\n
Step Three\u2014Install RubyGems<\/h2>\n
\n rvm rubygems current<\/pre>\n
Step Four\u2014Install Rails<\/h2>\n
\ngem install rails<\/pre>\n
Step Five \u2014 Deploying Rails application on web<\/h2>\n
gem install passenger<\/pre>\n
passenger-install-apache2-module<\/pre>\n
ln -s \/home\/rails\/rails_app\/public \/var\/www\/subdomains\/rails_app<\/pre>\n
DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/subdomains\/rails_app\r\nRailsEnv development\r\n<Directory \"\/var\/www\/subdomains\/rails_app\">\r\n Options Indexes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews +ExecCGI\r\n AllowOverride All\r\n Order allow,deny\r\n allow from all\r\n<\/Directory><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"