I'm able to run rails s through ssh successfully and see the app start up just as it does on my own machine but I'm unable to access the app from the web. The app is directly under the home folder and I have a symbolic link pointing from public_html to the public folder of my rails app, just as this tutorial explains. I even tried setting up a subdomain and every other step in the tutorial to no avail. Any help would be highly appreciated.
You need an application server like Phusion Passenger, Unicorn or puma to run a Ruby app in a production environment. Typically, you'll integrate the application server into a web server's (Apache, nginx) environment.
I don't know about your hoster, but if you have root access, then you can probably use any of these application servers.
The built-in server you start by running rails server is only meant for testing purposes on your local machine. It has not been made with security, performance, stability or any other production-environment criteria in mind.
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My issue is that I created a droplet to develop Rails apps in digitalocean .
I used the one-click rails droplet. And now I want to create more rails apps than the default rails app in this droplet.
The issue here is that it comes installed with nginx/unicorn .. And they're always on with path of default rails project in their config files.
Now let's assume I created another rails app(file) and I want to run it using "rails s" instead of default rails app that is created by the droplet. How can I do it?
Note: I don't want to change the file path in configs each time I decide to try another app
PS: I tried stopping the service of unicorn/nginx one at a time and both of them in the same time to use "rail s" to run the app .. But it didn't work .. Web pages were not loading
I know it might be a question of a rookie. But I'm kinda new to these stuff and I'd appreciate it if anyone could help me.
If you run it with rails s on the server, chances are it will be running with Puma, or if you're on an older version of Rails, Webrick. Unicorn is not involved in that case because Rails is using its own default web server. If you see that 'rails s' is not running in the right environment, it may be because RAILS_ENV is being set in your shell profile. You can override that by doing:
RAILS_ENV=development rails s
To launch your console.
That being said, rails s runs on localhost:3000 by default - and in the case you described it would be running on DigitalOcean's localhost - not yours. In order to get to it from your local machine, you would need to set up some sort of reverse proxy to allow connections to DO to get served from localhost. This is what nginx is doing for you - it's facilitating a reverse proxy.
If you want do use your DO server as a development machine for a second rails app you have, you're going to have to create that new rails app on the server, then create the reverse proxy settings in nginx to direct to it, then finally create the unicorn settings to serve it. This is an uncommon way of developing though. I recommend using your local machine to develop, and setting up Capistrano or some other deploy tool to deploy it to DO instead. You'd still need to add the settings in nginx/unicorn for the second app, but it will save you headache down the road.
I'm studing Docker and i just created a Rails app following the guide here https://docs.docker.com/compose/rails/ , the image used in this guide use the PUMA as server APP. When i up my container the app is already published on WWW by myipnumber:3000.
So here is my doubt, how is possible to my app is published on WWW without a Web Server like NGINX/Apache since these are aparenttly not installed in my host or container? (maybe they are but i cant see).
Puma is a rack-compliant application server that handles HTTP requests for you.
You'll need a web server for production deployment (but it's a different story).
Read also
Rack: https://rack.github.io/
Nice explaination by Justin Weiss: https://www.justinweiss.com/articles/a-web-server-vs-an-app-server/
Comparison or Ruby servers (a bit dated): https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/a-comparison-of-rack-web-servers-for-ruby-web-applications
So lately, I offer myself a Mac Mini which I want to use as a server (Websites, caching, Xcode Server (which is not working), VPN (which is not working), and stuff). Currently it is running macOS Sierra (10.12.4) with Server.app (5.3) installed. I've successfully enabled Websites & DNS service so my server is accessible from the outside. I have a trusted and valid SSL certificate.
The problem is...
...I don't know how to setup the server to be a production server for Ruby On Rails.
Want I want
To host a web app using Ruby On Rails on macOS server (www.example.com)
To know how to setup the server app to serve a web app
To host a Git repository for the web app code
I looked at the settings for Websites service in the Server app but I didn't find any options for other than PHP and Python.
What I know
My MacBook is already setup with Ruby 2.4 and Rails 5.0. I know how to install Rails for development purpose
Even if it's not straight-forward, post any help you have.
One of my guesses is that I could forward the port opened for the website without specifying a folder where the files are in the Server app.
I'd be pleased of you inlight in some way to achieve my goal.
I am pretty sure that you don't want to actually run production off of your mac mini. That said once you have your rails app running you can run rails s to run your server locally. If you want a production site you should look into either heroku or AWS elastic beanstalk for deployment.
We want to configure Apache to work with a Rails app. We want Apache to do load control. We cannot get them to work together. We are using MySQL for the database. If we could please have some type of instruction or tutorial to follow to be able to deploy our application in AWS-EC2, it will be greatly appreciated.
We have a domain and we want to have multiple Rails app running in the same domain. Each rails app seems to want to run in a different port. We do not want to expose port 80/443. Apache is managing the inbound request. My attempts to use the host file has not been successful.
I have two questions about rails server:
Do I have to start the server from within the application folder?
Is the server I started only for that application?
If they are true, this does not quite make sense to me, since why do I need to start multiple servers?
Or is there some kind of master configuration, so that one server can route to different applications? Is Capistrano for this purpose?
I'm going to assume you're talking about the rails server command, for running a local rails server to test your application, and that you're not talking about setting up a rails application on a remote server. Please mention if that is not the case.
Yes, you must execute rails server from within the root folder of your rails application.
Yes, the server you started is only for that application. It's a self-contained thing.
You should not need to start multiple servers. Even if you have multiple applications, you probably don't need to have more than one running at a time. So, you can shut down the rails server in one application (Ctrl-C) and then cd to your new application, and start a new rails server there with rails server.
If you do need to run two local rails applications at once, you can do so by running them on different ports. So, the first one, you can just execute rails server and it will make your site available at localhost:3000 (because port 3000 is the default port). The next one, you can specify a port other than 3000 - eg. rails server -p 3001 to get a rails app at localhost:3001.
Capistrano is for deploying your applications to a remote server, not for running them locally on your own computer. So, it is not relevant here. What you may be interested in is http://pow.cx/
Again, I've assumed you're talking about running your rails app locally on your own computer. If you're referring to deploying it to the internet on a server, then you can ignore this answer.