Deploying a Ruby on Rails application
Start the MySQL daemon if not already started:
/etc/init.d/mysql start
Change into the webroot, backup the example railsapp and replace it with the to be deployed Rails application:
cd /var/www mv railsapp railsapp.orig mv /path/to/NEW_APP /var/www/railsapp
Initialize the database:
cp railsapp.orig/config/database.yml railsapp/config/ cd /var/www/railsapp rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV="production"
Create the tmp directory (if missing):
mkdir -p tmp
Configure permissions:
chown -R root:www-data /var/www/railsapp chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/railsapp/tmp chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/railsapp/log chmod 666 /var/www/railsapp/log/*
Optionally remove the example railsapp, and restart the database and webserver:
rm -rf /var/www/railsapp.orig /etc/init.d/mysql restart /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Thats it, you're done!
Comments
installing rails broke remote access to subversion in eclipse
I recently installed ruby on rails to my linux server using these instructions. http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/rails/deployment
The install worked and my test page worked, but since then I haven't been able to update or commit any of my code on subversion from my windows machine through eclispe. in fact, svn just hangs and i have to kill eclipse manually. ( i've had no issues with svn since i set it up over 6months ago.)
At one point, i saw the message "no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it"
It's almost like rails took over the port i was using for svn, so when svn tries connecting through the normal port it rejects the request. I've had svn working through eclipse for months and no changes/updates to windows or linux, except for rails, and i only did the steps listed in the document list above. I'm running Apache 2.2 on linux, but i checked all files in apache that rails might have been modified and didn't see anything related to svn.
Anyone heard of this, have an idea of what it could be?