RailtrackrPublic Space

Follow these instructions to deploy Railtrackr on Site5.com hosting.

First, freeze your Railtrackr installation. Go into the base folder where the rails application lives and type this command in your terminal:

rake rails:freeze:gems

Then, create an archive of your application (let’s suppose that the application source code lives within the railtrackr/ folder ) and copy it over to your hosting space:

tar cvf railtrackr.tar railtrackr/
gzip railtrackr.tar
scp railtrackr.tar.gz yourname@yourdomain.com:

Login into your hosting space via ssh and unpack the application :

tar xvfz railtrackr.tar.gz

Then you have to modify a few settings to make it work. First, chmod everything to 755. For some reason unknown to me, this is required by Site5.com, in order to make your applications work properly.

chmod -R 755 railtrackr/

Then change the shebang in the following files:

• railtrackr/public/dispatch.rb
• railtrackr/public/dispatch.cgi
• railtrackr/public/dispatch.fcgi

So that the first line of each file reads like:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
... other lines ...

Then move your application to production mode, by editing the file railtrackr/config/environment.rb and decommenting the following line :

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'

Finally, link the Railtrackr public folder to your domain webroot :

$ cd
$ mv public_html public_html_moved
$ ln -s /home/yourname/railtrackr/public public_html

Railtrackr should be now ready and running on your website!