Ruby on Rails on Feisty Fawn.

Setting up

Mostly followed Four Days On Rails and RoR on Ubuntu Help.

After I have followed RoR on Debian Etch I have successfully set up the fcgi.

I have installed everything using Ubuntu packages. Nothing was installed via gem.

Installed ruby packages:

i   eruby                           - Embedded Ruby Language                    
i A liberb-ruby                     - Tiny eRuby                                
i   liberuby                        - Library for eruby                         
i   libfcgi-ruby1.8                 - FastCGI library for Ruby                  
i   libgems-ruby1.8                 - libraries to use RubyGems, a package manag
i   libhtml-htmltokenizer-ruby      - simple HTML tokenizer/parser for Ruby     
i   libopenssl-ruby1.8              - OpenSSL interface for Ruby 1.8            
i A libpgsql-ruby1.8                - PostgreSQL extension library for Ruby 1.8 
i A libreadline-ruby1.8             - Readline interface for Ruby 1.8           
i A libredcloth-ruby1.8             - Textile module for Ruby 1.8               
i A libruby1.8                      - Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8       
i   libyaml-ruby                    - YAML for Ruby                             
i   libzlib-ruby                    - Extension library to use zlib from Ruby   
i   rails                           - MVC ruby based framework geared for web ap
i A rake                            - a ruby build program                      
i A rdoc                            - Generate documentation from ruby source fi
i A ruby                            - An interpreter of object-oriented scriptin
i A ruby1.8                         - Interpreter of object-oriented scripting l
i   ruby1.8-dev                     - Header files for compiling extension modul
i   rubygems                        - package management framework for Ruby libr
i   vim-ruby                        - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with Ru
i   libapache2-mod-fcgid            - an alternative module compat with mod_fast
i   libfcgi0c2                      - Shared library of FastCGI

Authentication

Act As Authenticated has it all.

Troubleshooting

mySQL accounts

If rake db:migrate says Access denied...

$ rake db:migrate --trace
(in /home/proj/klub-goryu/goryu-is/klub-is)
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute db:migrate
rake aborted!
#28000Access denied for user 'matej'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Then you have to set up the password for the particular user in the database:

$ mysql -u user
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 8
Server version: 5.0.38-Ubuntu_0ubuntu1-log Ubuntu 7.04 distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> set password for 'user'@'localhost' = password('userspwd');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.10 sec)

Issues

Apache 2 + fcgi + rails

I wasn't able to make fcgi work. I keep getting the error:

ActionController::RoutingError (no route found to match "/" with {:method=>:get}):
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1266:in `recognize_path'
...
    /home/proj/proj/app/public/dispatch.fcgi:24

System works nicely without fcgi (quite slow, however).

• File bug in launchpad 126263.

Solution (it was all my fault): Rewrite rule was specified twice in the .htaccess file.

Working .htaccess (as described in RoR on Debian Etch.

# General Apache options
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
#AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI

# If you don't want Rails to look in certain directories,
# use the following rewrite rules so that Apache won't rewrite certain requests
#
# Example:
#   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/notrails.*
#   RewriteRule .* - [L]

# Redirect all requests not available on the filesystem to Rails
# By default the cgi dispatcher is used which is very slow
#
# For better performance replace the dispatcher with the fastcgi one
#
# Example:
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
RewriteEngine On

# If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive,
# then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file.
#
# Example:
# Alias /klub/ /home/proj/klub-goryu/goryu-is/klub-is/public/
RewriteBase /klub/

RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

# In case Rails experiences terminal errors
# Instead of displaying this message you can supply a file here which will be rendered instead
#
# Example:
#   ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application failed to start properly"