Rails 3 on dreamhost?

ruby-on-rails deployment ruby-on-rails-3 dreamhost
p33t3r picture p33t3r · Feb 12, 2010 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I'd like to deploy a small Rails 3 app on dreamhost (just for testing purposes, nothing serious) and I am wondering if anyone has done it already... Please choose one of the following:

  1. I did it and it's super easy, here's how: ...
  2. Though I didn't try it, it should be easy, here's how: ...
  3. It's quite complicated, but this should get you started: ....
  4. NO WAI!!!1!one!1 Set it up on slicehost or another non-shared hosting or you'll die a painful death trying to force it on DH

Thoughts?

Answer

Simone Carletti picture Simone Carletti · Feb 12, 2010

You can do this but it requires advanced sysadm skills.

In order to use Rails 3 on DreamHost you need to:

  • install Ruby 1.8.7
  • install RubyGems
  • install Rails 3

all in your own home directory because you don't have privileges to install everything elsewhere.

Also, this isn't guarantee to work with the existing Dreamhost Passenger configuration.

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