Where to place rails projects on a linux server?

Rails
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I just got my own server installed and ready to go with red hat on it. I
was just curious where the proper place would be to place all of my
rails projects?

usr/local?
usr/local/src?

/rails_projects?

Just need to know the proper place to put them.

Thanks!

2

Personally I just create a user for each project, and host it a
subdirectory.

For a petworld project
/home/petworld/production/live

Ben J. wrote:

I just got my own server installed and ready to go with red hat on it. I
was just curious where the proper place would be to place all of my
rails projects?

usr/local?
usr/local/src?

/rails_projects?

Just need to know the proper place to put them.

Thanks!

3

Develop or deploy?

On my home machine I have a main rails subdirectory under my home
directory
where I do development.

On my home machine: Deployment via Apache is under the servers home
directory - /var/www/ on my machine.

If you are on a hosting service it depends on where they give you space.
On Dreamhost I have lots of directories above and beyond the one for
each
domain and subdomain, but they all have to be under my home - that’s the
way
Dreamhost works.

If you have VPS then its as if you owned the machine … but stick with
some scheme, don’t dance around. I’d put deployed stuff under /var/www
but
then I’m used to *NIX conventions.

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David H. wrote:

Personally I just create a user for each project, and host it a
subdirectory.

For a petworld project
/home/petworld/production/live

That’s not a bad way to do it, but I think creating a user for actual
users is probably a better idea. Then I can just group each user and
give each group access to a specific project. Just wondering where to
put this projects directory where it makes sense, since many different
users will be accessing a specific project.