I want to install Ruby on Rails application fedena (open source school management system) on site.com account anybody have the experience or can install help me.
Further details is available here:
http://www.projectfedena.org/install
You're going to need to rent hosting from a reputable company and setup Phusion Passenger or a similar solution and then deploy Fedena onto the hosted server and get your 'site.com' DNS records updated to point to the new hosting. You could run this locally if the school was willing to find a suitable server to host it on.
I'm going to be realistic and say that there is too much to be done here by someone with no experience with Rails (especially if you're wanting to deploy on Windows). I would look into finding someone with experience to assist you through the process. It might cost you a little but it will save on time and frustration.
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Sorry I'm a newbie with Ruby on Rails. I have a cPanel Server with ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 3.0.10.I downloaded Spree Commerce from GitHub and upload them to public_html. But what's next?
I would not recommend installing Spree Commerce on a cPanel Hosting for the following reasons
It takes really a lot and lot of time and effort to do so
Really requires a strong experience to implement in cPanel environment and even though it is waste to invest time on that
I Hardly doubt if anyone recommends it
Deciding Spree deployment on a cPanel hosting is not a wise decision and better prefer any other deployment method.
Alternatively i would recommend getting a VPS from any hosting company if that suits your budget and try deploying on VPS instance .
There is also "Deploying to Heroku" guide specifically built for situations like that.
Also , have you tried sandbox available from Spreecommerce . Even though it wouldn't allow you to install extensions you can try that too to get a feel out of the box for free.
After I finished reading Agile Web Development with Rails, I Have developed my own website.
Now I am trying to deploy my project on linux system I rent, but I know nothing about how to deploy rails.Which server should I user? How to connect to mysql database?
As a java developer, I know I can use tomcat as my server which can convert http request to my own object and use jdbc to connect to my mysql database.
Now I want to know what is the main stream environment rails deployed?
I have heard of Lighttpd and FCGI. Can I use them in the product environment?
thanks
Is your linux system a full VPS (you have complete control?) If not, check your hosting company to see what options are available to you. If so, check to see if they have guides for setting up Rails. A lot (Slicehost, Linode, etc.) do.
Failing that... I would recommend either Apache (or Nginx) with Passenger.
https://www.phusionpassenger.com/
It's pretty straight forward.
As for actually deploying, look into Capistrano (or Vlad). These are a little bit more complicated, but they make life so much easier in the long run.
I am new to Ruby on Rails. I have been working as junior developer and most of time working on localhost so don't know how to launch Ruby on rails application, How to Configure Ruby on rails application and how to deploy it.
often I came accross following terms but don't know It's meaning and how to use them and where to use them.
Apache
Phusion Passenger
Heroku
nginx
Please Help me and also looking forward to any good tutorial to learn all that terms.
Thanks.
I think there is quite a lot of resources on the web for this, but :
Heroku is a platform as a service. Basically, you push your rails app to a git remote, and that's it, deployed. You can manage addons, workers, and processes from CLI, and scale up/down if you need. Probably the most painless way to start with.
Apache & nginx are two werbservers, I'd say they are the most common in the rails world. Nginx is the latest of the two and it seems to be better for most of the tasks, but if you want to know which to choose, there is several posts on the internet for that too.
Phusion passenger is the bridge (or one of the available bridges) between your rails app and your webserver. If you've done php before, think of it as mod_php.
Since this is all new to you I'd advise that you start with hosting on Heroku. You can do a lot with the free version and it's arguably the easiest way to get started with hosting your rails website. Check out the getting started guide from Heroku. There's also another beginners guide here.
Once you feel comfortable with Heroku your next step could be looking into hosting on your own virtual private server (VPS). The setup is much more manual but things that would cost extra money on Heroku are now free if you set it up yourself on your VPS. Here is a great article on VPS hosting.
For reference, I was hosting websites on Heroku for about a year before I started looking into hosting on my own VPS. Now what I do is start by hosting my projects on Heroku since it's the fastest way to get up and running. Then if the website is successful I transition to a VPS.
I'm new to Ruby and Rails, but my team is interested in using Redmine for project management. So my question is as follows: How does one deploy Redmine to a load-balanced server (so really two servers) that doesn't currently run and Ruby/rails apps? Would it be necessary to install ruby/rubygems/etc on both servers and proceed with the installation from there? Thx.
If you are going to deploy any rails app, you'll need to have ruby, rubygems, and probably phusion passenger or some other app server (thin, etc.), on both servers.
For redmine, you should consult the install docs:
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineInstall
And the howto guides for install:
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTos
In general, when load balancing, the trick is the db, and you can use a number of tricks to replicate and load balance the db, as with any other rails app.
There seems to be one guide for that in the wiki, that leads to these (not terribly helpful) comments:
http://www.redmine.org/boards/1/topics/24727?r=24739#message-24739
http://www.redmine.org/boards/1/topics/16687
My own advice would be to set-up both servers as serving up the rails app, but have one be the active master db, and the other the passive slave, then set-up monitoring on the master and if it goes down, promote the slave to master. How to do this is a longer answer, and much code has been written in this direction. Look-up DRBD and Heartbeat for how to do this on linux for mysql.
I am about learning to program with Ruby on Rails but I'd like to know if web applications built on ROR can be hosted on the regular Linux servers.
Absolutely. One of the great reference books on Rails, "Agile Web Development with Rails" (written by the guys that created Rails), takes you through a whole demo app that includes server setup, configuration, deployements, everything. They deploy on Linux.
I also ran a site for over a year that was a Rails app, on Linux, and it totally rocked.
I think you'll also find that the broader Rails community prefers Linux. That means when you need help with something, you're much more likely to find someone else who has had your specific problem and is able to help you fix it.
You may also find this question helpful in choosing - how to select a Rails host (if you don't host it yourself).
Yes they can be and its advised to use Linux Hosting. I hardly if anybody uses windows hosting for Ruby on Rails. As for servers, You can use
A server called Mongrel ( in a cluster ) Behind Apache or Nginx.
Unicorn
Apache with Mod_Rails ( Phusion Passenger )