Passenger For Ruby on Rails (mod_rails)

[Harro]

www.modrails.com

Has anyone considered this?

I know alot of people have asked about fcgi and theres a number of reasons this cant be implemented. But Passenger claims to out preform even fcgi for rails apps, and is said to be the best way to run rails on a shared apache server.

Let me know if this is something you may look into.
And anyone else whos in favour of this post below.

Thanks.

[geoffg]

Passenger looks really nice for rails deployment. I really hope hostgator will support it!

[Adorkable]

It says it's free... Could I just download, and install it with cPanel?

[GvilleRick]

Originally Posted by Adorkable

It says it's free... Could I just download, and install it with cPanel?

From a brief look at the install docs it looks like you would need root access as it installs as a mod to apache. It could be installed on a dedicated server but I would doubt it could be installed on a shared account.

[Harro]

Originally Posted by GvilleRick

From a brief look at the install docs it looks like you would need root access as it installs as a mod to apache. It could be installed on a dedicated server but I would doubt it could be installed on a shared account.

GvilleRick is correct, you could install it on a dedicated server, but if you have a dedicated server there are better options available for rails. Passenger is made to run well in a shared environment, but it would require hostgator to install it for us.

[Harro]

Just in case anyone else was wondering. I submitted a ticket concerning the installation of passenger and this was the reply.

Hello,
We are working diligently to reach this level but we are still swamped with the migration of servers from PHP4/MySQL4. It would be detrimental to our support staff to have to upgrade all of these applications at once. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you or your clients, and we ask that you please be patient as we prepare our selves for another massive update. I do not have any time frame as to when this will be completed, but it is in the works.

Thank you for your business!

So apparently passenger support is coming, hopefully soon

[tripdragon]

Any word on this? The whole point of passenger was to use it in shared environments.

[tripdragon]

I hate to say bump. But what might the status of this be?

[stefanos]

Any update on Passenger support (mod_rails) ?

[Quazzmo]

Passenger certainly sounds good for Hostgator. With the lack of Rails on Hostgator documentation, I'm sure a simpler implementation would save Hostgator a lot of support issues ! It seems everything Rails-wise that I do requires Hostgator support staff involvement (enabling ssh, installing an up to date rake, understanding 403 Forbidden messages, etc...)

[tripdragon]

Another bump. And another waste of bandwidth

[esl]

Perhaps you should consider emailing support directly to ask for an update.

[Nss]

i'm also interested at Passenger, i think they need to see how many people need it for evaluate the convience.

So who need Passenger please post a reply here.

[navidurrahman]

I also need phusion passnager for my rails application. I also query from host gator support but they didn't installed it yet