Ruby-rails

Ruby: Rails

Installation

Debian

As root issue the following command:

 gem install rails
 

#!wiki note

 '''Binary gems directory is not added automatically on `$PATH`'''

 In order to run gem binaries available on `bin` folder, the location `/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin` must be added as described in `/usr/share/docs/rubygems1.8/README.Debian`.
 

Fedora

Its very easy, `rubygem-rails` must provide all the needed packages and dependencies

 yum install rubygem-rails
 

Create a Rails Application

1. Set a location to deploy rails applications (eg. `/var/rails`)
2. Create Rails application

 mkdir -p /var/rails
 cd /var/rails
 rails newrail
 

Publish a Rail Application

Assuming the name of the Rail Application is `newrail` and the location for all new Rail Applications is `/var/rails`, thus a Rail Application can be published in 2 ways:

1. Via Builtin Webserver, called WEBrick by running `/script/server` located in the folder where it was created.

 cd /var/rails/newrail/script
 ./server &
 

1. Via Apache Web Server by setting the proper `DocumentRoot` varible with the location of the `public` folder in the Rail Application

 DocumentRoot /var/rails/newrails/public

 <Directory /var/rails/newrails/public>
     Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
     AllowOverride all
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
 </Directory>
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