To Install Ruby on Rails on a Plesk Server:
yum groupinstall “Plesk 8.1 Ruby”
yum install psa-miva (If Miva required)
yum groupinstall “Plesk 8.1 FastCGI” (if FastCGI required)
To Configure Ruby on Rails on a Plesk Server:
1. Create a domain in Plesk with Physical hosting.
2. Ensure that bin/bash access is enabled.
3. Ensure that CGI and FastCGI are enabled
4. SSH to server.yourservername.com with the FTP/SSH username and password.
5. Configure Ruby:
##Add Ruby to your path
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ruby/bin/
##Change permissions on private folder
chmod 755 private
cd private
##Create Application (Replace myapp and test with your application name and controller name.)
rails myapp
cd myapp
script/generate controller test
cd ../../httpdocs
ln -s ../private/myapp/public rails
## Check App works, You should see the Welcome Aboard page
http://yourdomain.com/rails/
#Additional, to see if Ruby actually works (gives output):
cd ~/private/myapp/app/controllers/
edit file test_controller.rb
Change the text so that it reads
class TestController < ApplicationController
def hi
render :text => 'Hi world'
end
def hello
end
def index
render :text => 'Hi! This is the Index.'
end
end
quit and save.
edit ../views/test/hello.rhtml and add the text:
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello from Rails!</h1>
<p>The current time is <%= Time.now %></p>
</body>
</html>
#Then visit: http://yourdomain.com/rails/test/hello
If RubyGems (Ruby package installation/management/distributrion software) is required:
Download RubyGems at http://rubyforge.org
cd Rubygems directory
ruby setup.rb
If soap4r (ruby implementation of SOAP) is required:
gem install soap4r –source http://dev.ctor.org/download
Some Rails apps refuse to run because they cannot find the Rails Gem, In this instance Rails must be installed as a Gem:
(RubyGems is a packaging system so rails can be installed/removed/updated in the same way as Yum)
yum remove psa-ruby-rails
gem install rails -v 1.2.2 (or specific version requested)
