http://it808.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:48:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a just a quick note about how to deploy Sinatra on Site5.com Passenger Gems My gems are installed in my user folder: INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: ~/.gem/ruby/1.8 GEM PATHS: - /home/it808com/.gem/ruby/1.8 - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 GEM PATHS: ~/.gem/ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 In my public_html/sinatra_app/.htaccess # Phusion Passenger Start PassengerEnabled on PassengerAppRoot ~/public_html/sinatra_app RackBaseURI /sinatra_app # Phusion Passenger End My sinatra_app folder consists of app.rb config.ru public/ tmp/ Getting my gems into the sinatra environment requires 2 ... http://it808.com/2009/12/installing-sinatra-on-site5-passenger/ I recently created a little toy rails app to see how easy it was to bring up rails with Site5's Phusion Passenger. Following the instructions at first everything went as planned and my rails app was working flawlessly. A few days later I was writing a 2nd rails app and noticed ... http://it808.com/2009/07/site5-wordpress-phusion-passenger-and-rails/ After setting up my account at github I created my first repository and followed their directions for configuring my local copy. Things were going well but I got stuck on the public key portion. The rest of this is what I did to complete the configuration: Followed the steps in the github ... http://it808.com/2009/07/setting-up-github-from-site5/ I just spent several hours looking at a error code 500 for a wpremix3 style.php page in Firebug. When I tried the url manually I got the same error with a generic Apache error page. Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your ... http://it808.com/2009/07/wpremix3-and-site-5-permissions/ For the drupal installation I have installed fckeditor, google_analytics, and pathauto. For themes, I selected the LiteJazz theme from rooplethemes. http://it808.com/2007/11/webifying-my-pta-part-ii/ Since my son started kindergarten this year I thought I would be a proactive parent and be involved in the school's PTA. I quickly learned that the PTA only used email and no other internet based technology. Based on a co-worker's experience and recommendation I signed the PTA up for Google ... http://it808.com/2007/11/webifying-my-pta-part-i/ After yesterday's post I realized that I only proved that the subdomain worked. I didn't actually get rails running. So today I'm continuing. Renamed public/index.html Edit config/routes.rb to define a default route, I uncommented the welcome controller entry Generated the welcome controller (ruby ./script/generate controller Welcome index) Added this to the index method render :text ... http://it808.com/2007/10/starting-rails/ I have Wordpress as my domain root and when I tried to nest a rails app as a subfolder things didn't work out. Instead I created a subdomain (i.e. test.mydomain.com), then I symlinked the rails_apps/public to the subdomain. At site5 this boils down to the following steps: Sign in to your SiteAdmin ... http://it808.com/2007/10/simple-site5-rails-symlink-to-subdomain/ I selected Site5 for my webhosting needs and so far it's been okay. I had some trouble with their initial provisioning; it said I would be up in "minutes", but it turned out to be 3 days. I opened 3 tickets and the response was fair (7 hours), but they ... http://it808.com/2007/10/hello-world/