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Building a Rails Server |
2010-03-27 21:30:00 +0000 |
Rod Paddock |
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Fellow Los Techie ****John Petersen took the famous (or infamous) Nerd Dinner ****application created by Scott Hanselman and ported it to the ****Ruby on Rails platform. When John was developing this, I recommended we actually put it online and proceeded to purchase the domain name www.railsdinner.com
Owning the domain name was one thing, hosting the site was entirely another. Last week I decided to find a place to host Rails Dinner. That place conveniently, is the server closet in my home office.
I had a spare machine not really doing much so I decided to appropriate it as a Linux server capable of hosting Ruby on Rails applications.
Hosting a Rails application requires a number of moving parts. The moving parts I installed and their purpose are as follows:
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Linux server.
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The runtime for ruby
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MVC based web application framework
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Open source SQL database.
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Runtime deployment tool for Rails applications.
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High performance web server
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| Software |
| Ubuntu 9.10 Server |
| Ruby (including Gems) |
| Ruby on Rails |
| MySQL |
| Passenger |
| nginx |
Around the 3rd or 4th time of trying to install this server I decided to keep a log. The following tasks are what you need to do to get a Rails Server up and running.
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<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">www.ubuntu.com</a>
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Optional step to add GUI support to your Linux server.
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Install ruby and all necessary libraries.
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Install ruby gems distribution tools
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Install rails
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Install mySQL Server
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Install all libraries used to talk to mySQL
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Download all libraries needed to install passenger
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Install library required to compile nginx web server
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Install library required to compile nginx web server
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Install library required to compile nginx web server
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Change to directory where nginx build files are located. </p>
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sudo ./passenger-install-nginx-module
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Downloads code and compiles (<b>yes compiles!)</b> custom web server with passenger built in. </p>
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I found the script (and instructions) below at the following site: <a href="http://library.linode.com/development/frameworks/ruby/ruby-on-rails/nginx-ubuntu-9.10-karmic" title="http://library.linode.com/development/frameworks/ruby/ruby-on-rails/nginx-ubuntu-9.10-karmic">http://library.linode.com/development/frameworks/ruby/ruby-on-rails/nginx-ubuntu-9.10-karmic</a>
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Add the following code inside the http{} brackets in your .conf file.
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Finally Rails Dinner!
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Now simply restart your nginx server and you are off to the races.
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Go check it out for yourself
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<a href="http://www.railsdinner.com">www.railsdinner.com</a>
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Thanks!
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Thanks to John Petersen for creating this application. It was a great learning experience and it took his work to inspire this endeavor.
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| Task |
| Download and install Ubuntu Server |
| sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop |
| sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential |
| sudo apt-get install rubygems |
| sudo gem install rails |
| sudo apt-get install mysql-server |
| sudo apt-get install mysql-client libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient15-dev |
| sudo gem install passenger |
| sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby |
| sudo apt-get install libssl-dev |
| sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev |
| cd /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin |