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how do i change the location of my rails directory?

Posted on October 4, 2014

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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Andrew SB

June 14, 2016

Accepted Answer

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:

How to Use the Ruby on Rails One-Click Application on DigitalOcean

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/rails

Replace mentions of /home/rails/rails_project with the path to your app: \home\rails\mytestapp

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