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Do you support Ruby on Rails ?

Our support for Ruby on Rails is preliminary and experimental; we'd appreciate any feedback you might have. Please note that currently we are not running Ruby using FastCGI which will reduce the performance of any Ruby Scripts.

Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails are already installed, so you just need to create you project. First, log in to your shell account via telnet/SSH.

The rail must be web accessable, so make the project somewhere in /htdocs:

$ rails /htdocs/www/your_project_name

Change to the project directory:

$ cd /htdocs/www/your_project_name

Adjust .htaccess file for Modwest servers:

$ vim public/.htaccess

Type on the first line of .htaccess (press 'i' to enter insert mode):

RewriteBase /your_project_name/public

Press 'esc' to exit insert mode, then type ':wq' 'cr' to save and exit vim.
Make a test controller:

$ ruby script/generate controller Test

Edit the test controller:

$ vim app/controllers/test_controller.rb

Insert text between "class TestController < ApplicationController" and "end":

def index render_text "Hello World!" end

View test:
Go to http://yourdomain.com/your_project_name/public/Test. If you see "Hello World!," then you have successfully created a new Ruby on Rails project.

User-Contributed Notes

29-Dec-2005 17:04

To set up a database connection in ruby you need to modify the
database.yml settings:
adapter: mysql 
database: database 
host: db.modwest.com 
username: yourusername 
password: yourpassword

The database.yml file should be located under
 /htdocs/www/your_project_name/config/

Here is a great tutorial on how set up a connection:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rubyrails/

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