Problem deploying on Site5

I'm finally ready to deploy my site, and I'm having some problems.

I've been able to upload the application and SSH in to run the commands to put it into production mode, but when I try to run the rake db:migrate command I get this error:

rake aborted! no such file to load -- ferret

I saw in the forums that I might have to locally install the gems, so I gave that a try following this tutorial in the forums(http:// forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=11954), but I got an error doing that:

gem install RedCloth Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:108: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-linux]

Aborted (core dumped)

having root access? The tutorial, nor 2 pages of comments after it made any mention of having root access, so I can only assume that it's something else.

Has anyone successfully deployed to site5 without any headaches? I've been working on this since yesterday afternoon, and my brain is fried

well, I've decided to give another webhost a try. while I've been using site5 for 2 years for my other non-ruby sites and they've been great, i need a rails host that is very easy to setup. I couldn't find any host-provided tutorials to follow for their systems, only user generated walkthroughs from 2006.

since this is my first attempt at a rails app, I want it to go as smoothly as possible :slight_smile:

I'm a site5 user as well and I was able to deploy an app fairly easily prior to 2.0.2. I would recommend dreamhost because they are supporting Passenger (mod_rails). I set this up on a local ubuntu server and it was EXTREMELY smooth and easy to deploy. Not sure about the performance of this on their servers but I hear good things. I am probably going to set up an account just for some smaller rails apps.

Ed

I must chime in to this thread to say that Site5 was a nightmare for me. I spent weeks emailing questions that appeared to be answered by technicians that had the skill level of 'hamburger flippers'. Finally, they FIRED me as a user and kept a significant portion of my yearly pre-paid fee. Kathleen