# Problem deploying on Site5

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-deploying-on-site5/139194>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 1, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-deploying-on-site5/139194 "2008-06-01T15:17:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![naevity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e9a140/32.png) [@naevity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naevity)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-deploying-on-site5/139194/1 "2008-06-01T15:17:01Z")

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I’m finally ready to deploy my site, and I’m having some problems.

I’ve been able to upload the application and SSH in to run the  
commands to put it into production mode, but when I try to run the  
rake db:migrate command I get this error:

rake aborted!  
no such file to load – ferret

I saw in the forums that I might have to locally install the gems, so  
I gave that a try following this tutorial in the forums(http://  
[forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=11954](http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=11954)), but I got an error doing  
that:

gem install RedCloth  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:108: [BUG] Segmentation fault  
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-linux]

Aborted (core dumped)

From my searching online, it looks like the error is caused by me not  
having root access? The tutorial, nor 2 pages of comments after it  
made any mention of having root access, so I can only assume that it’s  
something else.

Has anyone successfully deployed to site5 without any headaches? I’ve  
been working on this since yesterday afternoon, and my brain is fried

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**Author:** ![naevity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e9a140/32.png) [@naevity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naevity)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-deploying-on-site5/139194/2 "2008-06-01T15:48:42Z")

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well, I’ve decided to give another webhost a try. while I’ve been  
using site5 for 2 years for my other non-ruby sites and they’ve been  
great, i need a rails host that is very easy to setup. I couldn’t find  
any host-provided tutorials to follow for their systems, only user  
generated walkthroughs from 2006.

since this is my first attempt at a rails app, I want it to go as  
smoothly as possible 🙂

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**Author:** ![naevity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e9a140/32.png) [@naevity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naevity)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-deploying-on-site5/139194/3 "2008-06-01T19:09:40Z")

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I’m a site5 user as well and I was able to deploy an app fairly easily  
prior to 2.0.2. I would recommend dreamhost because they are  
supporting Passenger (mod\_rails). I set this up on a local ubuntu  
server and it was EXTREMELY smooth and easy to deploy. Not sure about  
the performance of this on their servers but I hear good things. I am  
probably going to set up an account just for some smaller rails apps.

Ed

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**Author:** ![naevity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e9a140/32.png) [@naevity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naevity)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-deploying-on-site5/139194/4 "2008-06-02T16:21:39Z")

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I must chime in to this thread to say that Site5 was a nightmare for  
me. I spent weeks emailing questions that appeared to be answered by  
technicians that had the skill level of ‘hamburger flippers’.  
Finally, they FIRED me as a user and kept a significant portion of my  
yearly pre-paid fee.  
Kathleen