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Patrick Kelly
6,200 PointsHow do I setup Ruby on Rails on a normal self-managed VPS?
Hi,
After learning quite a lot about Ruby on Rails, I'm keen to setup my own development area on my self-managed VPS (Virtual Private Server).
Unfortunately Team Treehouse have yet to cover such a topic in their wide variety of videos, and whilst the do cover how to setup a Ruby on Rails application through specific RoR hosts/services - they've yet to cover how to get this setup on your own hosting.
I'd like to utilise my current hosting as I don't want to have to pay more to host an application with another provider, especially when it should be feasible with my own.
I hope someone out there can help!! :)
Thanks, Patrick
2 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsWhat OS is your VPS running? Assuming Ubuntu.
I haven't done it, but I would imagine that you should be able to SSH into your VPS and install/set up everything on the command line. Does that make sense?
Patrick Kelly
6,200 PointsHi Kevin,
Many thanks for your quick response!
I believe I've installed Ruby and Rails onto my server in previous attempts via SSH & the command line, I think it's the trouble of setting up an application to run permanently (I.e so I can map a domain to it).
I hope you can help me further!
Best, Patrick