I want to run multiple rubies on our production server. We have some ruby 1.9.3 rails 3.2 sites going live as well as keep older 1.8 sites. I understand that Passenger 3.2 will be able to do this natively but isn't live yet.
So for now, is this the best way to do this?
http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/09/21/phusion-passenger-running-multiple-ruby-versions/
The apache passenger module can't do this. You could however run passenger standalone for each app (with a different ruby version) and then proxy from apache to passenger standalone.
You could of course also proxy to unicorn, thin etc.
What about using multiple VMs/Slices for your different versions of ruby and rails, that way you have more control of your enviroment and don't have to worry about your different rubies/rails causing headaches with each other.
EDIT
Another solution that I have heard of but haven't tried is setting multiple users and running each version of ruby/rails per a different user
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I have a few Rails apps, each running on their own server. They run under Passenger-apache, and currently under ruby 1.9.3. Currently, they run under a ruby installed and managed with rbenv.
I'd like to upgrade them all to ruby 2.2.x. As long as I'm doing this, I'd like to upgrade them from passenger 4.x to 5.x as well.
Let's assume I've tested them all on my development box and am confident they run fine under ruby 2.2.
As I think through this, I get very confused about the best way to do this -- especially with minimal production downtime.
I guess I'd start out by installing ruby 2.2 under rbenv, which theoretically shouldn't disturb the running apps. Passenger is installed under a particular ruby, but then has the option of running apps under different rubies. Should I install the latest passenger first, under the new ruby 2.2, but configured to run the existing apps under the old ruby? And then upgrading the apps to the new ruby... I guess involves running bundle install again, to get all dependencies installed under the new ruby?
Or something else entirely? Is there a way to do this that is relatively safe, and will have limited or zero downtime for my apps?
Has anyone done this before? I'm fairly familiar with all the pieces already, and can brainstorm possible approaches myself, but when I start, there are too many places where I'm not sure what the best approach is. What I could really use is advice from someone who has already done this, or is otherwise pretty sure that what they recommend will work as they say -- not just guesses about things you haven't done that might work. Thanks!
Make sure that your applications work under the new ruby version. I have had some legacy Rails 3.2.x applications that works up to ruby 2.1.5, but breaks in ruby 2.2.x. You should be fine with updating your ruby and passenger versions.
Since each application runs on their own server, you don't have to really worry about running multiple versions of passenger. You should be able to install the new version ruby on each server, install the gems, update apache to the newer passenger and restart apache to have everything take effect. Worst case, you can clone your servers to a virtual environment and test everything prior to doing it on production. This would help you minimize downtime as you would have any workarounds and/or research of bugs done prior to touching the production environment.
I'm in the process of setting up my VPS (linode) to host a few rails websites. What are some good options for setting up one server that will be hosting rails websites that are on different versions of rails and ruby. For example
foo.com - ruby 1.9.2, rails 3.0
bar.com - ruby 1.9.3, rails 3.2.3
I've seen only one blog post (using passenger) regarding a setup like this but I'm interested in finding out what some other solutions look like. Or if this is a BAD idea and I should be using different VPS's for each I'd like to know othat too.
You can use for example standalone Passenger or Unicorn instances per application, and reversproxy them via Apache or Nginx so it will respond on default port 80
I want to develop a website using Ruby on Rails.
What is the requirements for the Server, i.e. what do I have to tell the admin what I need. I believe the server will be running on a machine that is already hosting some websites which use PHP. I dont know more about that so far, and it will probably be depending on my requirements.
As far as I understood from documentation and other questions the server needs to have ruby, rails installed. It also said that I could use cgi.
My problem is that I need a concrete list of things that my admin should provide.
Another question suggests that the only thing is to intall Phusion Passenger if I can use an Apache Werbserver. This would seem like an option maybe.
So what do I really need?
Phusion Passenger is the easiest way to go in a mixed environment.
A Rails app needs these things:
ruby (ruby enterprise edition or MRI 1.9.2)
rubygems
sort of gems handled with bundler
You should try it with Passenger on Your local computer. Then you will see the list for the installation.
Thanks Tilo for your response. I will try to ask a better question.
I need to set up a Ruby on Rails Production environment that will only be used to host RoR applications and will be used as a Git server too. There will be no development done to these applications on the Production server. Right now, I forsee the production server hosting a maximum of 5 to 6 applications only. A couple will be company internal only and the rest of the apps will be viewable to the public. The traffic that they will receive is about 12 to 20 hits per week.
I have been given access to a Virtual Machine that will be the Production server and is currently running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Apache2, MySQL, and Passenger. There will be two RoR developers using the Production server to host their applications.
My Development Environment of which I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Apache2, and MySQL on my own laptop looks like this for each project/application:
RVM installed per application, Git,
Ruby 1.9.2 installed thru rvm, Rails
3.0.3, and I have yet to install the Capistrano gem.
My question is I don't understand how to host a RoR application on our production server.
As an example of what might be done to host a RoR application: I am surmising that I will create a user called app1 under the home directory. Next, should I install Ruby system wide or should I install rvm for app1 and then Ruby for app1? What are the steps involved on how to set-up the environment to run an application on a production server?
Can you give me a few setup scenarios, please?
Thanks in advance.
You didn't tell us what you want to use this web-site for... is it company internal only?
just a few users? or is it externally facing the internet? Just one server running everything?
If it's facing the internet, I would certainly stay away from Ubuntu... look at CentOS/RedHat or FreeBSD to install on a production server.
I'd definitely use Capistrano for deployment. Definitely Git.
I would definitely not install RVM system-wide - IMHO it is not robust enough.
I emailed with Wayne Seguin (maker of RVM) and he also uses the method I've outlined in the post below,
using one dedicated deploy user:
For how to deploy ruby-versions and gems with RVM, look at this post:
Installing Ruby offline using rvm
If you really need two versions of Ruby for two different apps, then use two deploy-users!
Each of them has their own default-ruby-version(!) that's why you really need two users :)
and you can install / manage the gems for each project separately under each of the deploy accounts.
You should also put the git repository in each of the accounts, so you can test.
Is this still the current state of deploying apps using different rubies with Passenger ? – http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/09/21/phusion-passenger-running-multiple-ruby-versions/ #rails # phusion_nl .
If it is, then its a mess.
It's the cleanest way to have independent instances of rails applications, read this tutorial to have some overview http://niczsoft.com/2011/03/passenger-standalone-with-god-on-rvm/