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October 24, 2010
Rails 3 on Ubuntu 10.10 with RVM, Passenger and Nginx

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: linux, rails, ubuntu — yasi8h @ 1:09 am

This covers setting up a Ubuntu 10.10 box to run rails 3 on production. Please
notice it only focus on installing and setting up things mentioned in the title.
However there are other things that you should configure and setup when
deploying a application to production (like ntpd for example).

Installing RVM

We will need git before we can get started.

1 sudo apt-get install git

Install rvm according to the official guide.

1 bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

add
1 [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # This loads RVM into a
shell session.

to your .bashrc.

Once you edit your bashrc file execute the following to load rvm without logging
out and back in
1 source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Just to be safe check wether rvm is a function, which is what it should be.
1 type rvm | head -n1

Install ruby 1.9.2

See what you get out of rvm notes. you will need to install some stuff before you
can compile ruby.
1 aptitude install build-essential bison openssl libreadline5 libreadline5-dev curl git-core
zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev

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libmysqlclient-dev

The above packages covers some common stuff. It should be enough to get you
started. However depending on what gems you want to install you might need to
install additional dependencies.
1 rvm install 1.9.2

Set 1.9.2 as the default

1 rvm use 1.9.2 --default

Passenger

Install passenger as instructed in rvm documentation

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/integration/passenger/
1 rvm 1.9.2 --passenger
2 rvm 1.9.2
3 gem install passenger
4 rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module

Let passenger downland and install nginx for you.

Modify /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf (thats the default location).

‘For Nginx users, replace the passenger_ruby line with:’

1 passenger_ruby /home/wayne/.rvm/bin/passenger_ruby;

Add a block like this to host your RoR site

1 server {
2 listen 80; #the server will be running on this port
3 server_name www.yourhost.com;
4 root /home/deployer/your_rails_project/public; # <--- be sure to point to 'public'!
5 passenger_enabled on;
6 }

Nginx init script

From: http://github.com/jnstq/rails-nginx-passenger-ubuntu
1 cd
2 git clone git://github.com/jnstq/rails-nginx-passenger-ubuntu.git
3 sudo mv rails-nginx-passenger-ubuntu/nginx/nginx /etc/init.d/nginx
4 sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/nginx

More information on http://wiki.nginx.org/Nginx-init-ubuntu

MySQL

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1 sudo apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server

Get the source for your rails app. unzip it in your home folder (or where ever you
want to. But be sure to edit the nginx config as appropriate).
1 cd to-your-rails-app-folder
2 bundle install
3 rake db:setup RAILS_ENV=production
4
5 sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Thats it!

Comments (3)

3 Comments »

1.

the following command did not work for me:

source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

instead:
source ~/.rvm/src/rvm/scripts/rvm

so if you get any message that it cannot find the rvm script or that it thinks
rvm is a directory, please traverse the path and find out exactly where curl
places the script files.

Comment by vish — November 11, 2010 @ 12:09 am

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RVM must have changed its directory structure. Yep thats the case.

Comment by yasi8h — November 11, 2010 @ 3:15 pm

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2.

I would do this first:

- this is closer to what you would do after you have installed Ubuntu and
contains CURL which you need to install RVM.

aptitude install build-essential bison openssl libreadline5 libreadline5-dev

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curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3

libxml2-dev libmysqlclient-dev

Comment by vish — November 11, 2010 @ 12:14 am

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