OK, after I installed a first RoR testing environment on my home server, I started experimenting. Now I finally managed to have an application up and running – although it’s just a rough test app….
Thanks to vinniez, I also installed passenger (it in portage – masked, but working!) and went on like this:
- added the “-D PASSENGER” option to /etc/conf.d/apache2
- switched from the default development to the production environment within my rails-application by using the comand “rake db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=production”
- as directed in the passenger instructions, added a symlink from my application’s public directory into my webroot
- also as directed, added a line starting “RailsBaseURI” into my default_vhost.include file (sitting in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d)
- restarted apache – IT WORKS!
I like it, when stuff just works so flawlessly… now, I have to dig into ruby a little bit more, as some of the syntac is quite cryptical… but I am sure I will eventually get there…
Oh, and BTW – Netbeans 6.1 is a perfect IDE for developing rails applications….
