Ruby on Rails Support

[aavellan]

I have spent much time reading the whole thread, but I remain with this problem. Host Gator should do a manual.
Alex

[gatoboi]

a manual would be nice.
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[utt-hp]

Tried to follow the instructions on the first page but I'm getting this error:

[uttholl@gator236 ~]$ rails /home/uttholl/demoapp
/usr/bin/rails:17: undefined method `require_gem' for main:Object (NoMethodError)

Ideas Anyone? Have I missed to do anything first?
HELP!

[Vero]

I'm new to ROR. After closely reading the forum and asking tech support some questions, I got the demo app to work. It was much easier than I anticipated at first. Now, I have a small ROR app that I want to transfer from my local machine to the site. I started to ftp the files via cpanel. Is there a way to transfer over the entire app directory instead of recreating the directory tree and copying each ROR file? Thanks for the help.

[GvilleRick]

You can transfer a folder over using an FTP program. I use CoreFTP from coreFTP.com but any FTP program should work.

[Vero]

thanks GvilleRick--that worked perfectly--coreFTP was very easy

[GvilleRick]

Glad it worked for you. I really like CoreFTP and I have used a number of different programs over the years.

[brianevans]

I too have been having a lot of problems getting my apps configured and started and here are a few pointers/lessons I have learned along the way.

1. Make sure you have a .htaccess file located in /demoapp/public/ that is like this: http://pastie.org/216238. (that is what caused the 404 error)
2. Make sure your /public/ folder is set with 755 permissions - same as dispatch.cgi (that is what caused the "Rails application failed to start properly" error for me
3. Make sure the following is at the top of your dispatch.cgi file:
   

   #!/usr/bin/ruby

   - this also cause the "Rails application failed to start properly" error when I uploaded an app from windows.
4. Make sure your database.yml is configured properly

Other that updating rails and gems (had to get Hostgator support to do that) everything works fine - but still slow. I am working on switching to production mode to see if that makes it faster.

And you don't have to run script/server to make it work - that is only when you are working with a development copy on your local machine.

[brianevans]

Originally Posted by Streamweaver

Sorry, yet another question

When I try to restart my server to register controllers I never get back to the command prompt.

./script/server

Gives me the expected results on screen but I never get back to a command prompt.

You don't ever have to run script/server when using an app uploaded on hostgator - that is only when you are using it in development mode on your local machine. Andy you don't have to restart the server every time you make a change either.

[brianevans]

Has anyone had any luck getting ROR to run at a decent speed with Hostgator? I switched to production mode and it is still really slow.

[Vero]

I'm trying to deploy a ROR app onto HG. I've done the demo and it worked fine. I've uploaded my app and put it into a /public_html/rails_apps/. I've created a production database and want to now migrate to that data base. I tried to rake db:migrate from the SSH console in the application root but get the following error:

No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, Rakefile.rb) /usr/libruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-07.3/lib/rake.rb:1934:in 'raw_load_rakefile'

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

[brianevans]

Originally Posted by Vero

I'm trying to deploy a ROR app onto HG. I've done the demo and it worked fine. I've uploaded my app and put it into a /public_html/rails_apps/. I've created a production database and want to now migrate to that data base. I tried to rake db:migrate from the SSH console in the application root but get the following error:

No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, Rakefile.rb) /usr/libruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-07.3/lib/rake.rb:1934:in 'raw_load_rakefile'

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

try running this:

ruby rake db:migrate

I am new too but not sure if that would work.

[ZenCocoon]

Originally Posted by brianevans

Has anyone had any luck getting ROR to run at a decent speed with Hostgator? I switched to production mode and it is still really slow.

As far as I know hostgator runs ROR app with CGI, wish is really slow. For better performance you would need FCGI or even better Mongrel or Passenger / mod_rails, ...

Hope this help,

[Vero]

I am trying to deploy an application from my local machine to HG. Its the shovell app from Lenz's Sitepoint's book. I'm having trouble establishing a symbolic link to my app. Here's what I've done:

cd ../public_html
ln -s ../rails_apps/shovell/shovell shove

Cpanel tells me I have a broken symbolic link. Any suggestions?

Also, since, I'm a newbie I don't mind asking the stupid questions. I am still having trouble performing a rake db:migrate from the SSH console. I have to admit, I don't really understand where I am when I get to the SSH console. Is the SSH console just a regular command window? And how do I get to a ruby or rails console from the prompt.

Thanks.

[brianevans]

Vero,

I will have to let someone else answer the symbolic link question because that is something I am not familiar with myself. Might want to email the support people and have them look at it.

As for the SSH, you need to make sure that you are in the "Shovel" app folder when you run your commands. So, if your app is called "shoveapp", you need to make sure you are in the /shovelapp/ folder before you run the ruby and rails commands. Also, try running "ruby rake db:migrate". Sometimes you have to add the ruby command.

I too am new at ROR - but starting to like it - a lot!

BTW - SSH is just like the regular command window - just a remote version of it.

[Vero]

brianevans,
Thanks. I will try that. I too like ROR. For me I chose it because it seems to have the complete package--from the client/server side of things. It seems that other options might deploy easier, but once that issue is resolved, the creation of applications seems easier under ROR. Thanks for the help.

[Vero]

Hello. In addition to my first question, I was in my app directory via SSH and issued the following command:

rake db:migrate

I received a notice to Please 'gem update --system and try again. I did that and received the following error:
Bulk updating GEM source index for http://gemsrubyforge.org
/user/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133 :[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i-386-linux]
Aborted (core dumped)

What's going on here? Also, after running a rails -v and ruby -v commands, I determined that I'm running Rails 1.2.3 and ruby 1.8.5, which is different than what the webiste forum indicates is running.

I issued a service ticket for both questions, but thought it might be more efficient to post them on the forum.

Any help would be appreciated.

[commando]

Vero, try asking your question on www.railsforum.com

[GatorDavid]

Good afternoon guys,

If anyone is getting errors like the following,

/usr/bin/rails:17: undefined method `require_gem' for main:Object (NoMethodError)

when running rails, please submit a support ticket so we can get it corrected for you. Thanks!

[jflcooper]

Is rails version 2.1.0 going to be installed? or does anyone know away around this?

[jflcooper]

ok i am getting a HTTP 500 internal server error does anyone have a solution to what this could possibly be?

[jflcooper]

OK to answer both my previous questions...
If you are using rails 2.1.0 and want it to work with your shared host account and they are only using 2.0.2 then do a gem freeze

>rake rails:freeze:gems VERSION=2.1.0

Make sure to do this on your local machine then upload the app and follow the other procedures... everything seems to be working like a charm.

and also something silly the HTTP 500 internal error was something simple... checked the error log in the CP (control Panel) and noticed that the dispatch.cgi did not have the correct permissions... check them.. change them and your on your way.

Also note to the support team, do a better job and also get fcgi as the apps are running pretty slow and from what i have read and research fcgi will help everyone alot.

Cheers
Coops

[katmann]

Does Host Gator plan to start offering FCGI? The performance of my website would be significantly improved if I could switch to FCGI.

Overall, I have been very happy with the support of Ruby on Rails from Host Gator. This is the only complaint I really have.

Thanks

[vvlist]

Hello, I am new to HostGator and moderately new to rails (I've built a few simple sites). I have my site up and running with the help of this very thread. (Thanks everyone) My question pertains to routing (I think). I used the suggestions in this thread to get www.mysite.com/rails/ to open correctly with www.mysite.com/ instead. That works wonderfully. But as soon as I click on a link that goes to another page on the site the www.mysite.com/rails/whatever appears. Each of the links in my view are coded like <%= link_to "Contact", :controller => "site", :action => "contact" %>
My site is very simple. There is an index which I want to the root of the site, a contact page, which I want to be www.mysite.com/contact/ and so on. So how do I get the "in site" linking to jump to www.mysite.com/contact/ instead of www.mysite.com/rails/contact/?

My routes.rb:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
  map.site ':action', :controller => "site" 
  map.root :controller => "site"
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
end

My .htaccess file in /public_html/ :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cpanel/.*
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  ^www\.mysite\.com [OR]
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  ^mysite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /rails/$1 [L,QSA]

I have read this entire thread twice over, and googled about .htaccess and the rewriteengine. But I'm not sure what to do. But I do think it has to do with either my routes.rb or my .htaccess file. Does anyone care to take a stab or point me in the right direction? Surely someone else has faced this issue.

[vvlist]

Originally Posted by vvlist

Hello, I am new to HostGator and moderately new to rails (I've built a few simple sites). I have my site up and running with the help of this very thread. (Thanks everyone) My question pertains to routing (I think). I used the suggestions in this thread to get www.mysite.com/rails/ to open correctly with www.mysite.com/ instead. That works wonderfully. But as soon as I click on a link that goes to another page on the site the www.mysite.com/rails/whatever appears. Each of the links in my view are coded like <%= link_to "Contact", :controller => "site", :action => "contact" %>
My site is very simple. There is an index which I want to the root of the site, a contact page, which I want to be www.mysite.com/contact/ and so on. So how do I get the "in site" linking to jump to www.mysite.com/contact/ instead of www.mysite.com/rails/contact/?

My routes.rb:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
  map.site ':action', :controller => "site" 
  map.root :controller => "site"
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
end

My .htaccess file in /public_html/ :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cpanel/.*
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  ^www\.mysite\.com [OR]
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  ^mysite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /rails/$1 [L,QSA]

I have read this entire thread twice over, and googled about .htaccess and the rewriteengine. But I'm not sure what to do. But I do think it has to do with either my routes.rb or my .htaccess file. Does anyone care to take a stab or point me in the right direction? Surely someone else has faced this issue.

So after some reading about routes, I added some named routes to my routes.rb, and as a result I can get www.mysite.com/contact instead of www.mysite.com/rails/contact to show up in the browser if I manually type them in. But I still can't get it to link to other pages like www.mysite.com/contact using <%= link_to "Contact", contact_path %> (contact_path being the method the named route created) the contact_path method prints out /rails/contact.

I realize I could just hardcode a http://www.mysite.com/contact link in there, but I want to make my code as clean as possible in my view and use the rails' way of doing things.

I remember when I set my rails app up initially, the directions at the beginning of this thread called for a

ln -s ../demoapp/public rails

This created the rails symlink. Is the extra "rails" in my URL that symlink? If so, can I use my .htaccess file to eliminate it?