Starting Rails server on boot on CentOS

Question

I'm pretty new to rails and trying to figure things out, I looked online but not much luck.

I have some servers that are running rails on startup without using rc.local at all, but I can't figure out why.

All I need is for rails to start on boot in production mode on port 80 (instead of 3000, as the rest of the servers also start on port 80).

Any ideas?

ATM relaying on webrick

If you insist on starting on boot you need to run the script from your initrc — Joseph Le Brech, Feb 16 '12 at 15:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '12 at 15:19

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Have a look at setting up nginx with ruby enterprise edition.

answered Feb 16 '12 at 15:19

Joseph Le Brech

I am looking for something without using nginx as the other servers arent using it – Darko Feb 16 '12 at 15:21
apache, lighttpd, nginx. those are your best bets. with nginx you could also run webrick or mongrel using fastcgi. webrick is not safe it's for dev mode only. – Joseph Le Brech Feb 16 '12 at 15:24
I installed nginx with rails module, installed passenger, now when i go to the rails application folder it says it doesnt find a lot of gems. I already did "bundle update" – Darko Feb 16 '12 at 15:46
It says "Could not find passenger (>=0) amongst" and a lot of gems here – Darko Feb 16 '12 at 15:48
and those are all in your Gemfile. – Joseph Le Brech Feb 16 '12 at 15:48
So how do I fix this so the server starts? – Darko Feb 16 '12 at 15:51
@JosephLeBrech link is now dead – ılǝ Apr 14 '14 at 05:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '12 at 15:20

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Check out Phusion Passenger. It supports both the standard Apache web server and Nginx web server.

answered Feb 16 '12 at 15:20

Eric Van Joshnon

Nothing for webrick starting on boot? – Darko Feb 16 '12 at 15:22
webrick is not recommended for production machines. Passenger is a good way to go. – Larry K Feb 16 '12 at 15:25
Sorry, I've only used webrick for non-production so it's hasn't really been a issue. So short of writing the startup script yourself and using rc.local I don't have a good suggestion. Any reason you don't want to do that? – Eric Van Joshnon Feb 16 '12 at 15:26
After installing passenger, it would boot up on its own on reboot or ? – Darko Feb 16 '12 at 15:30
It hooks into your web server. Apache or Nginx depending on which one you are running. – Eric Van Joshnon Feb 16 '12 at 15:36

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