# Release of how to set up on DreamHost the proper way coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 19, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487 "2007-01-19T16:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/1 "2007-01-19T16:30:51Z")
This is my first post here, so bear with me. šŸ™‚ I felt, as since there has been previous interest and current interest, and that current ā€˜methodsā€™ of this are not working AT ALL. _shiver_ I spent a few days fighting to get Radiant running; it is exactly what I need; I hate PHP CMS setups (mostly cause they are unwieldy at best,) and other CMSs (Ruby and otherwise) do not fit my needs well. Granted Radiant doesnā€™t fit it perfectly, it does pretty good. Anyways, off topic; as since all the other sites (not JUST Radiantā€™s) for setup on Dreamhost are incorrect (Some of them are so far off itā€™s pathetic,) I am assembling a set of instructions on proper setup (And moreso especially FastCGI support ā€“ Evil to work with, to say the least) and will be releasing them within the week. As well, I may assemble a tarball for an unpacked site as since Iā€™m not overly graceful with the setup of this package yet that people can just tar -xvf it and follow a much shorter set of instructions. For this, it would be nice to see if someone else is on a different Dreamhost server to test this idea (IE:- ruby/etc in same location on each server) Anyways, cheers all! BladedThoth ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/2 "2007-01-19T16:31:00Z")
Andrew, Iā€™ll be interested in giving that a read. I have an account with them and am surprised so many people have had problems installing Radiant there. Maybe my experience is an anomaly, but I was up and running with Radiant in about 5-7 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/3 "2007-09-25T22:38:33Z")
Well, if you insist in intalling from gem, then I suggest you first set Radiant in _development_ mode, and kill all FGCI/Rails/Ruby pocesses associated with Radiant. a good way is to run the command ā€œtopā€ in the shell and see which FCGI/Rails/Ruby are owned by Radiant. Then very ungracefully kill them (kill -9 pid). Once youā€™ve killed all related pidā€™s, then fix whatever you need to fix and then point your browser to our Radiant install. I cannot emphasize enough how easy it was to install from source though. ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/4 "2007-09-25T22:42:10Z")
May have a fix for this: Waiting for my backup site to come online on DreamHost. DreamHostā€™s DNS servers seem to be having issues ATM again. BladedThoth ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/5 "2007-09-25T22:42:44Z")
Okay, got source to work with minor modifications. Looks like essentially like radiant --unpack. It seems that the instanced version is not liking the detection of bluecloth on --some-- hosts, and also looks like it might be a gem issue moreso than anything else. I am going to write on how to use the source on installing, because for all I know, gem installations which are instanced are bugged on DreamHost and elsewhere, and I do not want to encourage this, even if theoretically easier to upgrade. Thanks again! Andy ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/6 "2007-09-25T22:44:11Z")
> This could sound stupid: tried RAILS\_ROOT/lib ? > > They are added at the beginning of environment loadingā€¦ Tried that too. No avail. > Maybe adjusting your .htaccess file instead? > SetEnv GEM\_HOME /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 > SetEnv GEM\_PATH /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8:/home/bladedthoth/.gems > > Maybe this wiki page could help you on your quest: > > [Peak Obsession](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseMultipleGemRepositories) Tried this too . Reading more online; It seems that Dreamhost isnā€™t the only site plagued with the bluecloth bug, and not the only sourcecode bugged by this glitch either (Search bluecloth on Google; More specifically that error) ā€“ I am about to try from the source itself; I have a suspicion itā€™s gonna be about the same, if not the sameā€¦ Thanks all for helping. I was going to be content posting how to do this with --unpack, but seeing there is a really good chance --unpack is going away, I need to figure this out for myself and others (With your help) šŸ™‚ Andy ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/7 "2007-09-25T22:43:42Z")
Okay. Got the fix started. Hereā€™s the problem (Again) ā€“ It nags that bluecloth does not exist. Iā€™ve dropped bluecloth.rb in RAILS\_ROOT, no avail. vendor/, nope. vendor/plugins/, nope again. GEM\_PATH, nope again. Canā€™t access GEM\_HOME. Iā€™ve ran out of ideas. radiant and radius is seen, as is everything else. Just not seeing bluecloth. My previous fix by tossing bluecloth into RAILS\_ROOT isnā€™t working now. Ideas? Just as an FYI, Iā€™ve tossed the following two lines into my dispatch.cgi and dispatch.fcgi. No luck: ENV[ā€˜GEM\_HOMEā€™]=ā€™/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8ā€™ ENV[ā€˜GEM\_PATHā€™]=ā€™/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8:/home/bladedthoth/.gemsā€™ It made it so that ruby would see my gem folder. Ideas on how to make radiant see bluecloth? ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/8 "2007-09-25T22:45:08Z")
I am guessing it may be server-related then. Yeah, I know what you mean. Windows; seconds (Under Instant Rails) - my home Fedora server. All goes fine. Get onto DreamHost, try to do it ā€˜vanillaā€™, no luck. Try to follow all the sites out there; no luck. Part of the problem is that the shebang of all the dispatches point to something totally different, for one. Part two, is that the gems (locally installed) are not seen by the global ruby app for processing, even when made fully visible. (chmod) Anyways, got to go to work. TTFN BladedThoth ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/9 "2007-09-25T22:49:06Z")
Yes I am. Had to check myself to make sure. šŸ™‚ This DreamHost thing is whoppinā€™ my butt. I got radiant --unpack working fine with a buncha small changes, but without --unpack, it refuses to run. The error is as such: /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:18:in `require\_\_ā€™: no such file to load ā€“ bluecloth (MissingSourceFile) It picks up Radiant and everything now, but when I try the bluecloth mod as desribed on the Wiki, no luck. Doesnā€™t seem to make a lick of difference, no matter where I put that. I donā€™t know what would make the unpack and the instance version is any different really (Looking through it all. Tons of sifting) Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/10 "2007-09-25T22:49:31Z")
Andrew, I _HIGHLY_ suggest you install from source. Will make your life much easier. ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/11 "2007-09-25T22:45:23Z")
Andrew, Are you running on production mode? ---
**Author:** ![andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@andrewkendall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-of-how-to-set-up-on-dreamhost-the-proper-way-coming/82487/12 "2007-09-25T22:52:13Z")
On 1/16/07, Andrew K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Okay. Got the fix started. Hereā€™s the problem (Again) ā€“ It nags that > bluecloth does not exist. Iā€™ve dropped bluecloth.rb in RAILS\_ROOT, no > avail. vendor/, nope. vendor/plugins/, nope again. GEM\_PATH, nope again. > Canā€™t access GEM\_HOME. Iā€™ve ran out of ideas. radiant and radius is > seen, as is everything else. Just not seeing bluecloth. My previous fix > by tossing bluecloth into RAILS\_ROOT isnā€™t working now. Ideas? This could sound stupid: tried RAILS\_ROOT/lib ? They are added at the beginning of environment loadingā€¦ > Just as an FYI, Iā€™ve tossed the following two lines into my dispatch.cgi > and dispatch.fcgi. No luck: > > ENV[ā€˜GEM\_HOMEā€™]=ā€˜/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8ā€™ > ENV[ā€˜GEM\_PATHā€™]=ā€˜/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8:/home/bladedthoth/.gemsā€™ Maybe adjusting your .htaccess file instead? SetEnv GEM\_HOME /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 SetEnv GEM\_PATH /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8:/home/bladedthoth/.gems Maybe this wiki page could help you on your quest: [http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseMultipleGemRepositories](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseMultipleGemRepositories) ## ā€“ Luis L. Multimedia systems Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi