No one said it would be easy
Elliot bemoans the fact that hosting a Ruby on Rails application on shared or virtual hosting is too hard, and I can attest to this.
I’ve mentioned the issues I’ve had with Typo many times, and although Mephisto is better the box is still working much harder than it should be. Rails may be a great framework for development, but hosting the results is different story all together.
Like Elliot I also have a couple of internal applications that run quite happily, but they are running on dedicated (albeit low-end) boxes – just like the big boys do. I suspect that both of these would fail if I tried to move them to shared or virtual hosting.
Running Typo svn on Debian Stable (Sarge)
After numerous attempts to upgrade this site to the latest version of Typo and the current version of Ruby on Rails I’ve finally succeeded. The things that tripped me up were:
Once I’d figured my way past those I’m now running Postgresql from Debian Backports and Ruby 1.8.4 of my own concoction, with Rails 1.1 (from gems, not debs). A side effect of this is that my old theme was broken on Typo svn so for the time being I’ve switched to Scribbish which is a fantastic theme for for general use and to base your own on – which I shall be doing shortly.
Here’s what I did to solve the package issues I had.
look good