Deploying a Rails app (into a subdirectory)
Some notes on deploying my rails application in to a subdirectory. I’m using rvm to manage Rails versions and this was all on Debian Lenny.
1. Install Rails (see here for some pointers).
2. Install Passenger
1 2 3 4 5 | gem install passengerapt-get install apache2-prefork-devapt-get install libapr1-devapt-get install libaprutil1-devpassenger-install-apache2-module |
Follow the instructions passenger gives you.
3. Edit your apache config
3.1 Create a symlink to your app’s public directory inside your current website root:
(in this example my app is call nihongo)
1 | ln -s /PATH/TO/WEBAPP/nihongo/public /PATH/TO/YOUR/DOCROOT/nihongo |
3.1 Edit your apache config for this root to contain a pointer to this app:
1 2 3 4 | RackBaseURI /nihongo<Directory /PATH/TO/YOUR/DOCROOT/nihongo>Options -MultiViews</Directory> |
4. Checkout your app…
Possibly use rake db:setup to setup the database. Use “bundle install” to install required bundle files.
Use…
1 | rake assets:precompile |
to “compile” assets, or you may get an error such as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 518msActionView::Template::Error (application.css isn't precompiled): 2: <html> 3: <head> 4: <title>Nihongo</title> 5: <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %> 6: <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> 7: <%= csrf_meta_tags %> 8: </head> app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:5:in `_app_views_layouts_application_html_erb___2940450108335557336_39013520' app/controllers/words_controller.rb:8:in `index' |
I don’t quite understand how Rails detects the app is running in production yet. But it does so automatically somehow…
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