Ruby on Rails
HowtosInstallation

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General:

• Installation – An effort to make a simple, generalised installation guide
• GettingStartedWithRails – Distro specific guides
• HowtoSetupDistributedRuby
• HowtoSetTheBaseURLsOfYourRailsApps?
• Howto Setup LiteSpeed WebServer
• HowtoSetupApacheWithFastCGIAndRubyBindings
• HowtoSetupApacheWithModRubyAndRubyBindings
• HowtoSetupApacheProxyingToLighttpdWithFastCGI
• HowToUseRailsWithRewrittenURLs
• RailsAndSuExec
• HowToUseMultipleGemRepositories
• HowToInstallRubyGemsUnderUsrLocalOnLinux
• HowToInstallAndRunRubyOnRailsFromUSBKey?
• How to install a small(ish) Rails dev environment on VMWare
• Howto Install and Configure a Full Rails app(db config/smtp config/rendering partials) on Linux using Lighttpd(with SSL) and MySQL

Install on Specific Hosts:

• HowtoInstallOnAnySharedLinuxHostWithShellAccess
• HowToInstallOnCsoftNet – Csoft.net
• DreamHost
• PeconiHosting
• Grokthis
• HowtoInstallRailsOnHardHatHosting
• RailsOnPairNetworks
• OCS Solutions
• HowToInstallOnPHPWebHosting
• site5
• textdrive
• (with virtual hosts)
• Westhost – RedHat Enterprise, VPS, Apache 1.3, and FastCGI
• HowToInstallOnModhostWithNoShellAccess
• GeekISP

Platform Issues:

• Howto Install RailsOnWindows
• Howto Install RailsonWindowsCygwin
• Howto Install RailsonWindowsVista
• HowtoInstallOnMacOSX
• Howto Install RailsOnFreeBSD
• Howto Install RailsOnOpenBSD
• Howto Install RailsOnAIX
• Howto Install RailsOnSolaris
• Howto Install RailsOnSUSE
• Howto Install RailsOnSUSE9.3?
• Howto Install RailsOnUbuntu
• Howto Install RailsOnCentos
• Howto Install RailsOnDebian
• Howto Install RailsOnFedora
• Howto Install RailsOnFedoraCore7
• Howto Install Fedora 7 Ruby on Rails w/ Mongrel
• Howto Install RailsOnMandriva
• Howto Install Ruby and Rails on Red Hat Linux 9
• Howto Install Ruby and Rails on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• HowToSetupDebianApache2Rails
• HowToInstallWithRailsLiveCD
• Howto Install Fast CGI and Apache2 for Red Hat Linux 9
• Howto Install Fast CGI with Apache2 and RHEL 4
• Howto Install Fast CGI with LiteSpeed Webserver
• HowtoSetupIIS
• HowtoInstallCompleteRubyOnDebian
• Howto Install Fast CGI and Apache2 for Windows XP
• HowToInstallLighttpdOnFreeBsdViaProxyPassThroughFromApache
• HowtoSetupChrootedApacheWithRailsOnOpenBSD
• Howto Use FastCGI on OS X
• HowtoInstallRailsOnASharedLinuxWebHost
• Howto Use SCGI Rails Runner with Apache 2 on Linux
• Howto Install on OS X with lighttpd
• HowtoInstallOnGentooWithApache
• Howto Install Ruby on Rails with Lighttpd and MySQL on Fedora Core 4
• Howto Install Rails on CentOS 4.3 with Apache and FastCGI Simply
• Howto Install RailsOnCentos5
• Howto Install RailsOnXampp
• Howto Install Debian On Rails : Apache 2.2 + MySQL + Ruby + Rails + PHP + Mongrel + Mongrel_cluster + Subversion + Trac + Capistrano
• Howto Install on win32+mingw Win32MingwInstall

Database connection problems

• Mysql Connection Problems

Specific Rails Versions

• Howto run a self contained rails app

Common Applications

• Typo 4.0.3 & Apache2 & Mongrel Cluster & Capistrano & Subversion & Gentoo

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