Ruby on Rails Notes » Hosting http://railsnotes.com A code-heavy brain dump of stuff I come across working on Ruby on Rails projects including Models, ActiveRecord, Views, Controllers, RESTful rails, deployment, server stuff, etc. Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:45:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ruby on Rails Hosting for Your New RoR Super Apphttp://railsnotes.com/38-ruby-on-rails-hosting-for-your-new-ror-super-app/ http://railsnotes.com/38-ruby-on-rails-hosting-for-your-new-ror-super-app/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:27:42 +0000 Melvin Ram http://railsnotes.wordpress.com/?p=38

I have been hosting my two apps with SliceHost for the last 9 months and can’t complain about anything. THEY ARE AWESOME!

One tiny thing that I do wish they did differently was to offer linux-newbies (like me) an option for a ready-made server that I could use within minutes of signing up. I really don’t find tinkering with Ubuntu fun.

Today I came across something that makes that possible: http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/9/24/rails-automation-at-slicehost. It’s like being Neo in the Matrix. You can take on 1000′s of agents with no sweat.

Mark Andersons’s script let me create a development server in under 3 minutes. It doesn’t look like it does anything for security so I wouldn’t use it as a production server as it is… but it’s great for playing around with your app on a live server while still in development.

Here’s the steps I followed:

  • Create a new slice (sign-up or create new slice in your slice manager if you’re an existing client)
  • Log into your server via ssh (using putty or whatever you prefer)
  • Type:  nano serversetup
  • Copy/Paste the code from Mark’s Script
  • Delete the first line where it says “ssh root@fiveruns.slicehost.com ‘”
  • Delete the last line where it has a ‘
  • Save the file (on your keyboard, press Ctrl + O  followed by Enter )
  • Exit Nano (on your keyboard, press Ctrl + X)
  • Type: sudo sh serversetup
  • Watch a bunch of code fly through on the screen and pretend you’re reading the Matrix
  • Type in a password for MySQL when asked & retype.
  • Watch more code fly by and feel smart
  • When done, open up FireFox and go to the IP of your new slice
  • Say “Holy Crap!” when you see that your app is running.
There are a few other things I’m going to add to Mark’s script and submit to him such as added git, firewall security and other things when I get the time but go n enjoy your new slice!
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