Ruby on Rails: Setup
- Create your Rails Application
- Access Your RoR Application
- Setup the .htaccess file
- Configure your .bashrc
Create your Rails Application
Install whatever version of rails you want (provided it's compatible with ruby 1.9.3) as a local user: gem install rails --no-rdoc --no-ri
- Create a new Rails application.
Rails 3.x
rails new ~/APPNAME -d mysql
Note: You can specify the version using "-v" (e.g. gem install rails -v 3.0.11 --no-rdoc --no-ri
) You may also use Rails v. 2.x for your app using the following syntax
Access Your RoR Application
If you are using a subdomain you can use the following steps to create the subdomain.
- Log into your Bluehost control panel.
- Select Subdomains from the Domains section.
- In the small form that loads, type in the name of your subdomain (example: 'APPNAME')
- From the dropdown box, select which domain you want to create that subdomain on.
- Make sure the Document Root box points to the folder you want the subdomain to be tied to. In this case, we want it to point to the public_html/APPNAME folder that we just created.
You will then need to create a Symlink to the public folder of your application. To do this, simply enter the following command:
ln -s ~/APPNAME/public ~/public_html/APPNAME
Setup the .htaccess file
You'll need this in the public folder for the app, which sets everything up, including where to look for user-installed gems. To add this, simply run the following commands:
rm ~/APPNAME/public/.htaccess
vim ~/APPNAME/public/.htaccess
- Press i to edit the file.
- Paste in the code from below.
- Enter :wq
- Press Enter to save the changes.
<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
Options -MultiViews
PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
#Set this to whatever environment you'll be running in
RailsEnv production
RackBaseURI /
SetEnv GEM_HOME /home1/examplec/ruby/gems
</IfModule>
Configure your .bashrc
You will need to add the following to your ~/.bashrc file.~/.bashrc file
export HPATH=$HOME
export GEM_HOME=$HPATH/ruby/gems
export GEM_PATH=$GEM_HOME:/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.3
export GEM_CACHE=$GEM_HOME/cache
export PATH=$PATH:$HPATH/ruby/gems/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$HPATH/ruby/gems
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