I really have enjoyed working with phusion passenger. It’s made rails setup and deployment a breeze. I did have a little trouble getting it running on my server the other day, though. Here’s what I had to do in order to get it working.
First, I had to upgrade RubyGems.
gem update --system
Then, I had to update my path to include the executables that are installed by gems. You can do that by adding a line to the end of your .bashrc file in your home directory.
vi ~/.bashrc
export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
Then I ran the passenger installation normally.
gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module
However, running the apache2 module install script gave me this error:
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module:17: undefined method `require_gem' for main:Object (NoMethodError)
Not to worry, all this means is that RubyGems version 1.3.3 doesn’t include the require_gem method anymore. Changing line 17′s require_gem call to gem does the trick and allows you to install the apache2 module with no problems.
Before:
require_gem 'passenger', version
After:
gem 'passenger', version
After that, all you have to do is follow the directions for configuring apache and your application will run great!
