using ruby on rails via jailshell

[RawG]

Hey everyone,

I've had a request from a client to install ruby on rails. I've successfully downloaded, compiled and installed the required tarballs, and everything works fine from anywhere on the filesystem, so long as I'm logged in as root (eg. I can run 'rails testapp', and it creates me a skeleton rails app).

If I login to my test user account and get a jailshell prompt, I'm not able to execute either 'ruby' or 'rails', I just get a "command not found" error. I have the ruby binaries installed at /usr/local/ruby/bin, with symlinks to ruby (etc) in /usr/local/bin. I've checked my PATH (`echo $PATH`) and I've got the right directories listed there.. so I'm unsure as to why I am recieving these "command not found" errors.

Has anyone else had any experience with this kind of issue? What changes to I need to make in order to make ruby and rails available from jailshell?

Thanks in advance...

 

[RawG]

OK... so I've just heard back from cPanel support... easy solution:

when building ruby, the configure command should be run as:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local

NOT

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ruby --exec-prefix=/usr/local/ruby

the second configure command being how most installation guides for ruby on rails will tell you to do it.

Works great now!

 

[BraveX]

Thanks for sharing.

I'm wondering if Ruby can be used without needing shell access? We're thinking of offering it but don't allow shell access on the server. Is there a way around that?

Thanks,
BX

 

[peter77]

For a production environment yes.

But you have to left some nice features a side.

You cannot use migrations or any other rake tasks, so you have to make db changes by .sql files.

http://onrails.com.ar