How to check that RoR is working in Plesk 8.1.1

Posted by ionut

July 31, 2007

I had the possibility to upgrade my Plesk instalation from 8.0.1 to 8.1.1 without to pay additional money . In the new release notes they mentioned that Ruby on Rails is supported, so I tried it to see. The upgrade was fine, and now I have RoR installed.

To activate it you have to add fast_cgi support for your site. This option is in the same place like the others options (perl/php/python/cgi support).

To check that RoR is installed and it is working:

1. go into the document root folder for that domain.com:

# cd /srv/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/

2. create a simple RoR application:

# rails myapp

3. go into application directory:

# cd myapp

4. start WEBrick server on 9999 port:

# ruby script/server -p 9999

If you don’t specify a port, default is 3000 but in my case this port was already used.

For more options use the –help option:

[root@bijoux]# ruby script/server --help
=> Booting WEBrick...
Usage: ruby server [options]

    -p, --port=port                  Runs Rails on the specified port.
                                     Default: 3000
    -b, --binding=ip                 Binds Rails to the specified ip.
                                     Default: 0.0.0.0
    -e, --environment=name           Specifies the environment to run this server under (test/development/production).
                                     Default: development
    -m, --mime-types=filename        Specifies an Apache style mime.types configuration file to be used for mime types
                                     Default: none
    -d, --daemon                     Make Rails run as a Daemon (only works if fork is available -- meaning on *nix).
    -c, --charset=charset            Set default charset for output.
                                     Default: UTF-8

    -h, --help                       Show this help message.

5. check your application in browser: