Comments on: I’ll set up your Ruby on Rails server for you. For free. http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/ Software Developer Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:52:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Paul Dowman http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-50954 Paul Dowman Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:24:46 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-50954 Sean, The unreleased version available on my GitHub account has been substantially rewritten, it uses Passenger and Nginx. Unfortunately though, I don't have time to do any more work on EC2 on Rails, so I won't be making a release that includes these changes. Paul Sean,

The unreleased version available on my GitHub account has been substantially rewritten, it uses Passenger and Nginx. Unfortunately though, I don’t have time to do any more work on EC2 on Rails, so I won’t be making a release that includes these changes.

Paul

]]> By: Sean http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-50524 Sean Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:57:35 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-50524 Hello Paul, Thank you for the work you did. Please consider support for Phusion Passenger. Thanks, Sean Hello Paul,

Thank you for the work you did. Please consider support for Phusion Passenger.

Thanks,
Sean

]]> By: Shrii http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-46326 Shrii Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:54:00 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-46326 Concepts of EBS is very good, but it should have throughly implementation. <b> EC2 Support More really very very very much much Wurst and shameful </b> Please carefull it dosent mean that we can not implement but use safely always take Backup of things we need. Thanks- Shrii Concepts of EBS is very good, but it should have throughly implementation. EC2 Support More really very very very much much Wurst and shameful Please carefull it dosent mean that we can not implement but use safely always take Backup of things we need.

Thanks-
Shrii

]]> By: Andrei Erdoss http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-26431 Andrei Erdoss Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:24:05 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-26431 Hello Paul, Thank you for the great effort you put into making EC on Rails. I have recently switched to Passenger and I really enjoy the easy of deployment with Passenger over Mongrel. Some other big sites like Ta-da List have switched, and I would like to express my support for a EC on Rails using Passenger. Thank you, Hello Paul,

Thank you for the great effort you put into making EC on Rails. I have recently switched to Passenger and I really enjoy the easy of deployment with Passenger over Mongrel. Some other big sites like Ta-da List have switched, and I would like to express my support for a EC on Rails using Passenger.

Thank you,

]]> By: Paul Dowman http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-7015 Paul Dowman Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:53:59 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-7015 Arash: Adam Greene has been doing a ton of work on Amazon EBS support (among other things) on his git fork at http://github.com/skippy/ec2onrails/tree/master There will be a new version soon with his changes. As for Phusion Passenger, aka mod_rails, I've definitely considered it but I haven't got a compelling enough reason to switch yet. Arash: Adam Greene has been doing a ton of work on Amazon EBS support (among other things) on his git fork at http://github.com/skippy/ec2onrails/tree/master There will be a new version soon with his changes.

As for Phusion Passenger, aka mod_rails, I’ve definitely considered it but I haven’t got a compelling enough reason to switch yet.

]]> By: Arash http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-6986 Arash Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:07:30 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-6986 Hey Paul, Have you considered implementing this to work with Phusion Passenger for easy deployment + Amazon EBS? Hey Paul,

Have you considered implementing this to work with Phusion Passenger for easy deployment + Amazon EBS?

]]> By: Paul Dowman http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-6976 Paul Dowman Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:37:37 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-6976 Sorry Quinn, I don't have any ideas about what happened. Try posting on the mailing list to see if anyone else has an idea. Sorry Quinn, I don’t have any ideas about what happened. Try posting on the mailing list to see if anyone else has an idea.

]]> By: Quinn http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-6965 Quinn Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:11:23 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-6965 Help... the /logs folder was somehow symlinked wrong in the deployment, and my mongrel cluster won't start. I am sort of new at this - followed all the steps and can get one mongrel running with script/server... (once I remove the bad symlink) but that's not really what we want to do here, right? If anyone would be willing to point me in the right direction that would be amazingly helpful. Thank you very much! Help… the /logs folder was somehow symlinked wrong in the deployment, and my mongrel cluster won’t start. I am sort of new at this - followed all the steps and can get one mongrel running with script/server… (once I remove the bad symlink) but that’s not really what we want to do here, right? If anyone would be willing to point me in the right direction that would be amazingly helpful.

Thank you very much!

]]> By: nilesh http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-6761 nilesh Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:23:09 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-6761 i was trying to enable the accessibilty of my amazon ec2 mysql database using mySql Query Browser, i followed all the steps given by "Larry Kluger", but still i am not able to do the same, any idea why am i not able to access my databse using MysqlQuery Browser?is there any setting i may have missed out? i was trying to enable the accessibilty of my amazon ec2 mysql database using mySql Query Browser, i followed all the steps given by “Larry Kluger”,
but still i am not able to do the same, any idea why am i not able to access my databse using MysqlQuery Browser?is there any setting i may have missed out?

]]> By: Yan http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-4178 Yan Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:48:22 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-4178 Very cool! Just wanted to let everyone know we've launched a service (totally free and no signup required to try) that lets you custom configure a stack (whether rails or anything else) and build it to a variety of virtualization formats including vmware, xen, parallels, and of course Amazon EC2 - you can build and launch your stack into the cloud with just a couple clicks. Check it out: Elastic Server On Demand (http://es.cohesiveft.com). Feedback very welcome. Very cool! Just wanted to let everyone know we’ve launched a service (totally free and no signup required to try) that lets you custom configure a stack (whether rails or anything else) and build it to a variety of virtualization formats including vmware, xen, parallels, and of course Amazon EC2 - you can build and launch your stack into the cloud with just a couple clicks. Check it out: Elastic Server On Demand (http://es.cohesiveft.com). Feedback very welcome.

]]> By: Jason Belec http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-3584 Jason Belec Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:06:50 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-3584 Thank you, was just thinking about doing something similar. I will experiment with your wonderful idea and provide feedback or enhancements if I can come up with any. Thank you, was just thinking about doing something similar.

I will experiment with your wonderful idea and provide feedback or enhancements if I can come up with any.

]]> By: Soren Burkhart http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-3529 Soren Burkhart Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:13:33 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-3529 Great work... this is awesome! Great work… this is awesome!

]]> By: dave http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-2844 dave Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:01:04 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-2844 Paul, thanks for the image and for making it public! Very cool stuff .. Paul, thanks for the image and for making it public!

Very cool stuff ..

]]> By: Martin Rehfeld http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1577 Martin Rehfeld Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:57:45 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1577 Now that Amazon has annouced SimpleDB, I think it's time to add that to the equation, some thoughts on http://inside.glnetworks.de/2007/12/15/amazon-simpledb-web-service-complementing-the-ec2-compute-cloud/ The Rails deployment stack just made a big leap ahead! Now that Amazon has annouced SimpleDB, I think it’s time to add that to the equation, some thoughts on http://inside.glnetworks.de/2007/12/15/amazon-simpledb-web-service-complementing-the-ec2-compute-cloud/

The Rails deployment stack just made a big leap ahead!

]]> By: Frederico Araujo http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1478 Frederico Araujo Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:32:39 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1478 Nice work. I wish I knew it before... :) I wrote some nginx tasks ec2onrails:server:nginx_start/stop ec2onrails:server:nginx_configure nginx to frontend 10 mongrel clusters ps: there is a fair mode nginx version. it uses round robin technique instead. http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer-for-nginx-and-mongrel source: http://git.localdomain.pl/?p=nginx.git;a=tree;hb=upstream_fair-0.6 Nice work. I wish I knew it before… :)

I wrote some nginx tasks

ec2onrails:server:nginx_start/stop
ec2onrails:server:nginx_configure

nginx to frontend 10 mongrel clusters

ps: there is a fair mode nginx version.
it uses round robin technique instead.
http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer-for-nginx-and-mongrel

source:
http://git.localdomain.pl/?p=nginx.git;a=tree;hb=upstream_fair-0.6

]]> By: Dan Farina http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1220 Dan Farina Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:12:16 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1220 Another vote to release a decent stand-alone "bare" Feisty (or Gutsy pretty soon...) image. Right now there aren't any obviously good ones and I have quasi-stripped down your image + rebundled to fill this need. I'm extremely happy that the rebundling works so easily and that I get to use my GNU/Linux flavor of choice! Another vote to release a decent stand-alone “bare” Feisty (or Gutsy pretty soon…) image. Right now there aren’t any obviously good ones and I have quasi-stripped down your image + rebundled to fill this need. I’m extremely happy that the rebundling works so easily and that I get to use my GNU/Linux flavor of choice!

]]> By: Jeff http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1192 Jeff Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:17:55 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1192 This is great. Thanks for providing this. This is great. Thanks for providing this.

]]> By: Paul Dowman http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1090 Paul Dowman Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:55:17 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1090 Brandon: The php command-line interpreter isn't installed, only the php apache module is installed. You need to install the package php5-cli. "aptitude install php5-cli". Let me know what other unexplained behaviour you're seeing and I'll see if I can find an explanation for you! :-) Brandon: The php command-line interpreter isn’t installed, only the php apache module is installed. You need to install the package php5-cli. “aptitude install php5-cli”.

Let me know what other unexplained behaviour you’re seeing and I’ll see if I can find an explanation for you! :-)

]]> By: Brandon Z http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1089 Brandon Z Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:47:04 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1089 You're right Paul, PHP is enabled. It does seem to be having problems. Some of the issues I'm having could be related to other things, and so may not be worth mentioning, but there are two things that seem clear indications of *something* wrong, even if these two things are not big deals on their own--they just seem like possible indications of deeper problems. which php returns nothing. php --version doesn't give any info either. and yet PHP pages are being processed (at least when specifically addressed with a full URL including the page name)... if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. You’re right Paul, PHP is enabled. It does seem to be having problems. Some of the issues I’m having could be related to other things, and so may not be worth mentioning, but there are two things that seem clear indications of *something* wrong, even if these two things are not big deals on their own–they just seem like possible indications of deeper problems.

which php returns nothing.
php –version doesn’t give any info either.

and yet PHP pages are being processed (at least when specifically addressed with a full URL including the page name)… if anyone has any ideas I’m all ears.

]]> By: beng http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1070 beng Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:47:23 +0000 http://pauldowman.com/2007/06/20/ill-set-up-your-ruby-on-rails-server-for-you-for-free/#comment-1070 Thanks ! I have setup rails so many times following input from all over and gems always lands here /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/, but looks like your right ! Also, trying out the rmagick stuff now. For the base feisty, there are quite a few feisty images out there, so never know which one to start with. I'd like a trustworthy feisty that - feisty server - bundling script - tasksel install lamp pretty much a snapshot of what you have but at an earlier stage of building up. But now that you've explained my concerns, I'll just stick with this... still want/need my libxml-ruby gem though !!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks ! I have setup rails so many times following input from all over and gems always lands here /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/, but looks like your right !

Also, trying out the rmagick stuff now.

For the base feisty, there are quite a few feisty images out there, so never know which one to start with. I’d like a trustworthy feisty that
- feisty server
- bundling script
- tasksel install lamp

pretty much a snapshot of what you have but at an earlier stage of building up.

But now that you’ve explained my concerns, I’ll just stick with this…

still want/need my libxml-ruby gem though !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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