Question
how do i change the location of my rails directory?
- Posted on October 4, 2014
Asked by abdullah12
I am using ruby or rails ubuntu 64 droplet with nginx and unicorn. By default the rails directory is located at" \home\rails". How can I change this location to “\home\mytestapp” ?
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Check out this tutorial for all the info on how the Ruby on Rails one-click application is built and how to deploy your own application on it:
This is covered in more detail there, but the quick answer is that you need to update the references to the demo app in a number of places:
/etc/unicorn.conf/etc/default/unicorn/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/railsReplace mentions of
/home/rails/rails_projectwith the path to your app:\home\rails\mytestapp