RoR Deployment on Shared Hosting

Rails
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Hey all -

Well, I’ve gone through all of the tutorials I can get my hands on, and
I’ve developed what is basically a (very) simple front-end to a database
that I maintain online.

My big problem now is deployment. Almost everything that I’ve found on
the web regarding deployment (and this includes the instructions for
Switchtower/Ccapistrano) assumes that I have complete control over the
Apache server that I’m deploying on. This isn’t the case - I have a
hosting plan with IXWebhosting.com. According to what I first read
about RoR, I can deploy it on any server with CGI (or FastCGI - the
server I’m on is Apache 1.3 with both modules). But I’m at a complete
loss as to how to deploy it, or even how to check and make sure that
my server will support the execution of Ruby code.

How do you deploy on shared hosting? I don’t have the faintest idea
where to even start.

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2006/3/9, Brian H. [email protected]:

How do you deploy on shared hosting? I don’t have the faintest idea
where to even start.

Copy your files to your webhost. Then, ssh into the box, and run the
console:

ruby script/console

If you can execute a few commands without errors, you’re fine. Don’t
forget to update config/datababse.yml to suit.

You should really ask your host for this information. They might have
different requirements. For an example, here is DreamHost’s Rails
page:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Rails

Hope that helps !

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With my hosting provider, you copy the files to the server and then
contact the hosting guys who must deploy it for you. I haven’t done it
yet as my app is still under development, so I’m not totally sure, but
that’s what I read somewhere.

Cheers,
Dan