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Dongju Seo
2,339 PointsHow do you run your Ruby on Rails Application?
I am thinking of using a VPS service or Ruby Hosting service. I already have experienced Ubuntu and Linux when I had used a VPS service before. How do you guys run Ruby on Rails Apps? Plus, I was trying to use Heroku app server, but it had some errors and was difficult to use. Hence, I currently do not like Heorku. I heard Amazon Web Service is very quality for affordable prices.
2 Answers
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherHi Dongju Seo! Amazon is great and I've also had good experiences with Digital Ocean and Linode. The easiest app server to use is Phusion Passenger. Hope that helps!
Brandon Barrette
20,485 PointsI just setup my Digital Ocean droplet and was up and running in about 3 hours. 2.5 of those hours was getting ImageMagick installed so that images could be uploaded... Here is an awesome tutorial for doing this on Digital Ocean:
Dongju Seo
2,339 PointsYep. I saw this, but I chose Ubuntu 12.04 because Ubuntu organization recommended users to use 12.04. Did you set up Nginx or Apache?
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Pointsi used that 1 click installer and am using nginx and unicorn. It's working now, but its still a basic app with no real users yet.
You can always set up another droplet if you do decide to switch too. I don't think it's too difficult.
But I'm a total newbie when it comes to VPS and running everything thru the command line, so was proud to have something up and running, haha.
Brandon Barrette
20,485 PointsAlso, here is what will help with installing ImageMagick. My problem was getting the appropriate dependencies for .jpg and .png images (this didn't happen automatically for some reason). The directions here helped make it work:
http://srijiths.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/installing-imagemagick-in-ubuntu-11-04/
Dongju Seo
2,339 PointsThank you for the link! I failed to use Nginx on my front end and Apache on my back end. :( At least, I wanted to connect Nginx to phpmyadmin. But it did not work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Can I have your help if you don't mind? It would be greatly helpful for us to communicate via Facebook. :) My Facebook is https://facebook.com/seotaemin I am familiar with Linux commands and VI commands.
Dongju Seo
2,339 PointsDongju Seo
2,339 PointsWow very quick response! thanks :) I just purchased theVPS service from Digital Ocean! What are you using for your OS and database? I picked Ubuntu 12.04 32bits up with MySQL ( but also I will probably need to install sqlite and PostreSQL) Can you recommend me any tutorials for a beginner?