Ruby on Rails
FastCGI on unix linux bsd

Here’s a step-by-step guide for making Rails work with \FastCGI?. There’s a special version for \FastCGIOnFedora

If you are using Apache you will need mod_fcgi, and the \FastCGI Development kit; These can be obtained from http://www.fastcgi.com . You will also need ruby-fcgi.

1. Install the FastCGI? Devel kit.
   

   $ wget <a href="http://fastcgi.com/dist/fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz">http://fastcgi.com/dist/fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz</a> 
   $ tar zxvf fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
   $ cd fcgi-2.4.0
   $ ./configure
   $ make
   $ sudo make install

1. Install ruby-fcgi (note that on some systems this won’t work right unless you’ve installed the Devel kit first).
   

   $ sudo gem install fcgi

1. Download and install mod_fcgi from your distributions package management system of choice (\ToDo: expand on this)

1. Add the following to your apache httpd. conf
   

   LoadModule fastcgi_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_fastcgi.so
   <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
       FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/
       AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
   </IfModule>

   
   You may have mod_fastcgi.so installed in a different place. If so, use the correct path.

1. Reload apache with
   

   $ apache2ctl reload

   
   Use apachectl if you are not using apache2

1. Change directories to your rails app

1. In public/dispatch.fcgi change:
   

   require 'fcgi'

   
   to
   

   require 'rubygems'
   require_gem 'fcgi'

1. In public/.htaccess change:
   

   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]

   
   to
   

   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

Credits

Thanks to Jarkko Laine