Getting started

rubyonrails-talk
1

OK, I am lost…

I have installed both Ruby & Rails.

$ ruby -v

ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-linux]

$ rails -v

Rails 4.1.4

I have created a new application and linked it to the document root:

rails new blog

me@server:/var/www/html$ ls -l

total 12

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug 5 10:37 blog → /home/me/blog

-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 11510 Jun 28 12:32 index.html

me@server:/var/www/html$

When I navigate to 192.168.1.5 I see the default Apache welcome page

When I navigate to 192.168.1.5/blog I see a directory listing for my blog application

I am using Ubuntu Server 14.04

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

2

You need to install PhusionPassenger (or some other means of forwarding your blog routes to the rails ‘engine’) Apache does not - out of the box - know how to execute ruby scripts (Rails)

cheers

Walther

3

To work in development mode, Apache isn’t needed. Just run the Rails server:

$ rails s

Then your browser finds it:

http://192.168.1.51:3000/blog