Binary Balance

There’s not a huge amount of Debian specific Ruby/Rails tutorials on the web. I’ve written a few in the past and with the release of Debian Squeeze and the recent official release of Ruby 1.9.3 I thought it might be time to do another one. Read more...

Continuing on from my previous post on compiling Nginx with Phusion Passenger, some configuration is now in order.

To give credit where due, I’d like to mention that I found much help on the Slicehost articles and tutorials site and adapted some of their instructions for parts of this post. Thanks Slicehost! Read more...

After compiling Ruby 1.9.2 on my Debian Lenny web server, the next thing I wanted to do was get an actual web server going for serving up Rails apps. I’ve been an Apache user for a long time but I’d been hearing about Nginx and how it’s kicking ass and taking names, so I thought I might give it a go. I also needed some way to hook Rails up with Nginx. Read more...

I’ve just recently been setting up my Debian Lenny web server to run Rails apps. So I thought I might document some of what I did for posterity and as a way to give back a little in return for all those blog posts and general instructional texts found on the Internet that have helped me over the years.

Ruby 1.9.0 is already available in the Debian Lenny repositories, so if you’re happy with this version you can of course just install the ruby1.9 package and be done with it. You could also check what backports are available and stuff. But I can’t leave well enough alone though so if you’re like me, read on. Read more...