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You will need to install Ruby, and RubyGems. Most of the distributions provide packages for them, but in case your operating systems doesn't provide it here are the links to the web sites:
Now, we need to fetch the package list:
# gem update Upgrading installed gems... Gems: [] updated
Now, everything is ready to install Ruby on rails:
# gem install rails Attempting local installation of 'rails' Local gem file not found: rails*.gem Attempting remote installation of 'rails' Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency rake? [Yn] Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn] Install required dependency activerecord? [Yn] Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn] Install required dependency actionmailer? [Yn] Install required dependency actionwebservice? [Yn] Successfully installed rails-1.0.0 Successfully installed rake-0.7.0 Successfully installed activesupport-1.2.5 Successfully installed activerecord-1.13.2 Successfully installed actionpack-1.11.2 Successfully installed actionmailer-1.1.5 Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.0.0 Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.0... Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-1.2.5... Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.13.2... Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.11.2... Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.1.5... Installing RDoc documentation for actionwebservice-1.0.0...
Now, it is necesary to install the SCGI interface of Ruby On Rails. In this case, we will need to download the "gem" file, and compile it:
# wget http://www.zedshaw.com/downloads/scgi_rails/scgi_rails-0.4.3.gem # gem install scgi_rails-0.4.3.gem
If this step fails, probably is because you need to install the Ruby development package first.
Lets create an example project. The following example uses /var/www to place the rails directory, but it doesn't matter what directory you use.
# mkdir /var/www/rails # cd /var/www/rails $ $ rails example create create app/controllers [..] create log/development.log create log/test.logAnd now, lets create a new control:
ruby script/generate controller MyTest. This done, we can add a few lines to build a "Hello World" example. Edit app/controllers/my_test_controller.rb in order to make it look like this:
class MyTestController < ApplicationController def index render_text "Hello World" end end
$ cd example $ scgi_ctrl config What password do you want? $ scgi_ctrl start
This is a configuration file of one of the approached you can use to run Ruby on Rails in Cherokee:
Documentroot /var/www/rails/example/ DirectoryIndex index.html Directory /public { Handler file } Directory / { Handler scgi { Server localhost:9999 ErrorHandler on } } Request "^/$" { Handler redir { Rewrite "" "/public/index.html" } }
http://localhost/MyTest