Run Ruby on Rails on Nginx (1)

BKJIA Translation: Nginx has become the third largest Web server in the world. Among the top 10 Web servers used by domestic websites, Nginx is also among the top. Ruby on Rails is a new generation of Web development languages that have become popular in recent years. Its easy-to-use and agile features have attracted the attention of many Web developers.

This article will guide you to install and configure the Ruby on Rails environment step by step on Ubuntu/Debian, and achieve excellent performance with the Nginx runtime environment.

Install Ruby

 
 

  
  
export PATH="${PATH}:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/" 
  
  
echo 'export PATH="${PATH}:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/"' >> /etc/bash.bashrc  
  
  
aptitude install ruby rubygems vim-ruby rub y-dev libzlib-ruby   
  
  
libyaml-ruby libreadline-ruby libncurses-ruby rdoc ri libcurses-ruby   
  
  
libruby libruby-extras libfcgi-ruby build-essential libopenssl-ruby   
  
  
libdbm-ruby libdbi-ruby libxml-ruby libxml2-dev 
 
 

Install Rails

 
 

  
  
gem install -v=2.3.5 rails 
 
 

Gem install rails should also work, but 2.3.6-2.3.8 is currently being written) there is a problem. If you want to try the latest version, you can use:

 
 

  
  
gem install rails –pre 
 
 

Or use RVM. RVM is a command line tool that allows us to install, manage, and use multiple Ruby environments more easily.

Applications

My new application is called myapp.example.com.

 
 

  
  
cd /var/www  
  
  
rails new myapp.example.com  
  
  
cd myapp.example.com 
 
 

Thin Server

Thin will become a Ruby Server:

 
 

  
  
gem install thin  
  
  
thin install  
  
  
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f thin defaults  
  
  
thin config -C /etc/thin/myapp.example.com -c 
  
  
/var/www/myapp.example.com --servers 3 -e development # or: -e production for caching, etc 
 
 

If you do not like Thin, and Mongrels:

 
 

  
  
aptitude install mongrel mongrel-cluster  
  
  
mongrel_rails cluster::configure -e development -p 3000 -N 3 -c /var/www/myapp.example.com 
  
  
 -a 127.0.0.1 # or: -e production for caching, etc  
  
  
mkdir /etc/mongrel_cluster  
  
  
sudo ln -nfs /var/www/myapp.example.com/config/mongrel_cluster.yml /etc/mongrel_cluster/myapp.example.com.yml  
  
  
#sudo ln -nfs /var/www/myapp.example.com/config/mongrel_cluster.yml 
  
  
/etc/mongrel-cluster/sites-enabled/myapp.example.com.yml 
 
 

Install Nginx

Nginx will act as a Web server, and the Ruby request sent by the proxy to Thin runs on port-. Run the following command to install Nginx:

 
 

  
  
aptitude install nginx