Now running on passenger (and ruby EE)
February 6th, 2009
If you use rails, or are considering it, it just got a whole lot easier to deploy using apache and mod_rails a.k.a Phusion Passenger
I think the best part of the experience was the installer, if you have ever compiled anything on linux you know it can be a pain when you don’t know if you have the required libraries. So the Phusion Passenger folks wrote their installer in ruby and it tells you what is missing (if there is anything). Sweet stuff.
Its much easier than running on mongrel, especially dealing with restarts and reboots (if you ever have to reboot, typically apache is already configured to start on startup). So how to restart an app? no shutdown you just navigate to the rails directory and issue a “touch tmp/restart.txt” next request the app will restart. Slick, wish everything was that simple.
So all in all (with out ruby enterprise) it took me 15 mins to install it and switch all my apps over from Mongrel to Phusion Passenger.
2 Responses to “Now running on passenger (and ruby EE)”
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February 6th, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Thank you. I am learning. You are a good writer. Sometimes I think we all need a good “shut down” and “reboot”. I will keep checking in. thank you diane
February 6th, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Yes, it is me again.. I guess this is the newer posts. Are you a believer? Seeking first righteousness and loyalty… I should be impressed. (proverbs 21 :21 verse for the day, powered by “Biblegateway.com”) I wouldn’t want to seek other things first. Very impressive. Thank you. diane