Issues with Rails on CENTOS? This can help!

[peconi]

Hey guys,

I was trying to get rails to work through cPanel on Centos 5 and as many of you, I have encountered problems too.

Here's what made it work for me (run as root):

1) First remove all gems

gem uninstall rails
gem uninstall mongrel
gem uninstalled fastthread

2) Now run cPanel's Ruby installation script

/scripts/installruby

3) Now second command as required by cPanel

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/ror_setup

4) It seems cPanel's "fast head" forgets to install, fast Thread

gem install fastthread

5) App's don't run still? - The issue in my case was outdated GEM! Mongrel did not want to run with the old version. So run:

gem update --system

6) Restart cPanel (not required but I like to do it)

/etc/init.d/cpanel restart

And there you have it. Works like a charm on my Centos 5

[ispro]

I wish to add that if one have LIBSAFE installed he need to add /usr/bin/ruby to exception list via:

echo "/usr/bin/ruby" >> /etc/libsafe.exclude

This would prevent buffer overflow errors. Enjoy!

[Gerto]

Thanks, this solved the "not running" problem for me!

[rhenderson]

You should also add

echo "/usr/bin/ruby-bin" >> /etc/libsafe.exclude