Hi,
We have a new dedicated server currently running CentOS, PHP, Apache and MySQL. We'd like to install Ruby, Rails and Lighttpd (or Mongrel) on it without breaking Apache and PHP. We have an experienced sysadmin but he has never worked with Ruby / Rails before.
Are there any good tutorials out there on how to go about installing Ruby, Rails, Lighty on CentOS? Also, any tips from group members who did this in the past would be of great help!
Thanks so much.
Best,
Gabor
Don't run RoR next to PHP 
I've actually had some bad experiences
doing this in hybrid environments. Mongrel can eat a lot of juice.
I've only done this with Apache and Mongrel, not lighty and Mongrel,
but you should know that on CentOS there are some peculiarities
related to the installation of the MySQL adapter and libraries from
the Gem Repository.
What version of CentOS 5 are you installing with? I can't help you
with a tutorial, but I can give you tips on this based on my
experience, because I've been doing this a lot since CentOS 3 (I've
done RoR installs on every distro 3-5)
Dan
Hi,
We have a new dedicated server currently running CentOS, PHP, Apache and MySQL. We'd like to install Ruby, Rails and Lighttpd (or Mongrel) on it without breaking Apache and PHP. We have an experienced sysadmin but he has never worked with Ruby / Rails before.
Are there any good tutorials out there on how to go about installing Ruby, Rails, Lighty on CentOS? Also, any tips from group members who did this in the past would be of great help!
the link at: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Rails+on+CentOS+4.4+with+Apache+and+FastCGI+Simply
has installation for CentOS 4.4.
Scroll down to the Ruby, fastcgi, and MySQL part.
It's pretty much the same for all Linux's
1) Install Ruby(and supporting libs) via your distro's preferred method, in your case rpm. 2) Install ruby gems by downloading, un-tarring, run setup.rb. 3) Install Rails via gems.
The trick is, when installing ruby, to make sure you get the supporting ruby libs. These seem to be packaged differently in every distro.
With a fast connection I can get Rails installed on Linux in 10 or so minutes. It took a little longer the first time.
Good luck,
Sean
> We have a new dedicated server currently running CentOS, PHP, Apache > and MySQL. We'd like to install Ruby, Rails and Lighttpd (or Mongrel) > on it without breaking Apache and PHP. We have an experienced sysadmin > but he has never worked with Ruby / Rails before.
Also, look at RubyWorks (http://rubyworks.rubyforge.com). Even though it's at 0.0.1 now, it installs on CentOS 4, and is built for people like your sysadmin.