Scott Motte

Setting up slicehost

1. Sign up for an account at slicehost
2. Use the Deploying Rails Applications Book Chapter 4. Starting at p. 74. (Simultaneously, read the Slicehost Wiki to make sure you aren’t missing something specific to slicehost (I actually mostly followed the wiki)
a. Once it got to the point of installing Ruby on Rails though (from the wiki), I opted to go with the install instructions from podcast episode 042 from sd.rb (San Diego Ruby group)
b. ACTUALLY, turns out that the video did not work so well. I had the following issue with gem update so I reverted back to the wiki which basically installs the gems from source. (My slice was apparently too small to handle all the gems for a gem update)
c. That, also did not do the trick. Came across this about an issue with Gem 1.1.1 and from there I found a link to here posted just 8 hours ago
d. But it looks like 1.1.2 is coming out tomorrow anyway so I’ll probably just end up updating
e. Still didn’t get it to work. I either need to upgrade to a faster slice, wait for 1.1.2 (1 day away), or downgrade to an early gem version. I am going to wait for 1.1.2. Hopefully, that will solve the problem.

3. Two days later 1.1.2 came out, and the following forum was updated with info for how to do things. - specifically, how to install ubuntu and rails

4. Then I went through improving nginx configuration

5. Next I went through installing multiple domains through virtual hosts with nginex, but it’s pretty easy you just do a sudo gem install capistrano

6. To install git I used the following tutorial

7. Then i used this to install capistrano

8. There quite a few more configurations I made. Too many to really keep track of until I become more familiar with the process. This was quite helpful though.