# Executing ruby script on a Dreamhost account? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 27, 2007, 6:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/executing-ruby-script-on-a-dreamhost-account/121354 "2007-11-27T06:48:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/executing-ruby-script-on-a-dreamhost-account/121354/1 "2007-11-27T06:48:54Z")
So far, from what I’ve read, I should use eRuby if I want to execute my program online. I’ve got Dreamhost and I know they have RoR support. There’s a couple libraries I’m using, how do I install these libraries online? ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/executing-ruby-script-on-a-dreamhost-account/121354/2 "2007-11-27T06:55:26Z")
Also forgot to ask, would executing ruby code online be easier with Rails? I’ve built a program for work and I’d like to make this avaliable for my co-workers without them having to configure a ruby install and running thru command line. It scraps a few pieces of data off of google and then outputs it to an xml. I’m sure I can figure out how to program it so it outputs an html file. What I’d really like to do is: Have a simple page, user pastes in a list of urls in a input box. when they submit… My program will grab each url one by one and run my scraper method with the url and it will output an html file. ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 9:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/executing-ruby-script-on-a-dreamhost-account/121354/3 "2007-11-27T09:28:38Z")
Hi Feng, > My program will grab each url one by one and run my scraper method with > the url and it will output an html file. Isn’t that scRUBYt! by any chance? 🙂 Well, it doesn’t matter whether it’s scRUBYt!, a Hpricot script or whatever similar, your process will be kicked to death really fast - or at least that was the situation when I last tried. Maybe they improved their policies somewhat - however I doubt that dream would be usable for these kind of things even after that. Your best shot is slicehost - it’s cheap, fast, easy to setup, great support and no nagging. Dreamhost is great for blogs, gallery, wikis and that sort of stuff (apart from the ocassional screwups and slowdowns). However, hands off if you are trying to run a Ruby script there (unless it’s Rails or something they accept). Just my 2c… let me know if you have a different experience. Cheers, Peter * * * [http://www.rubyrailways.com](http://www.rubyrailways.com) [http://scrubyt.org](http://scrubyt.org) ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/executing-ruby-script-on-a-dreamhost-account/121354/4 "2007-11-27T17:45:35Z")
Peter S. wrote: > Hi Feng, > > > My program will grab each url one by one and run my scraper method with > > the url and it will output an html file. > > Isn’t that scRUBYt! by any chance? 🙂 Well, it doesn’t matter whether > it’s scRUBYt!, a Hpricot script or whatever similar, your process will > be kicked to death really fast - or at least that was the situation when > I last tried. Maybe they improved their policies somewhat - however I > doubt that dream would be usable for these kind of things even after > that. > > Your best shot is slicehost - it’s cheap, fast, easy to setup, great > support and no nagging. Dreamhost is great for blogs, gallery, wikis and > that sort of stuff (apart from the ocassional screwups and slowdowns). > However, hands off if you are trying to run a Ruby script there (unless > it’s Rails or something they accept). > > Just my 2c… let me know if you have a different experience. > > Cheers, > Peter > > * * * > > [http://www.rubyrailways.com](http://www.rubyrailways.com) > [http://scrubyt.org](http://scrubyt.org) yup, it’s Scrubyt;) Would this work better with Rails? I have an dedicated box I have access to. ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/executing-ruby-script-on-a-dreamhost-account/121354/5 "2007-11-27T18:46:07Z")
On Nov 26, 9:48 pm, Feng T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > So far, from what I’ve read, I should use eRuby if I want to execute my > program online. > > I’ve got Dreamhost and I know they have RoR support. I use eRuby to power a Ruby script on Dreamhost and it works beautifully (and very quickly). To get eRuby up and running, login to your shell account, copy DH’s precompiled eRuby to your www directory cp /usr/bin/eruby /home/username/example.com/eruby.cgi And update your .htaccess file Options +ExecCGI DirectoryIndex index.rhtml index.html index.htm AddHandler rubypage .rhtml Action rubypage /eruby.cgi (You can see my implementation at [http://code.dunae.ca/svn/premailer/tags/1.4/www/](http://code.dunae.ca/svn/premailer/tags/1.4/www/)) I also run two Rails sites on Dreamhost. They’ve been very problematic, though they seem to have been more stable since around August. If you can get away with eRuby instead of Rails I would strongly suggest it. Good luck!