I want to import my app from github to run on Digitalocean. I am currently running Ubuntu Ruby on Rails on 14.04 (Postgres, Nginx, Unicorn).
Step I took so far after setting up a new droplet…
- sudo apt-get update
- I installed git
- removed the folder “/home/rails” and everything inside
- cloned the app from Github to “/home/”
- renamed the cloned folder to “rails”
- I setup the locale environment
- configured postgresql user and password
- bundle install everything
- run “rails s”
run into the problem…
“A server is already running. Check /home/rails/tmp/pids/server.pid.” after I tried “rails s”
Is this the correct way to do it? if not how exactly should I go about deploying my rails app from github?
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Sorry I don’t quite understand step 1. Can you explain more? create /home/index.html in app/view folder? how to point your route there?
ok i figured it out
- make sure to create
/home/index.htmlas your first/index page and point your route there before you push to git - install git
apt-get install git - ssh to your digitalocean domain
- navigate to
cd /home/rails - delete folder “rails”
- clone your rails repo from github
git clone YOUR_REMOTE_ADDRESS - rename the downloaded repo to rails
mv OLD_FOLDER NEW_FOLDER - setup your db
rake db:drop db:create db:migrate - run rails server like so
rails s --binding=YOUR_IP_ADDRESS
I was running rails s for the past few days wondering why it is just showing the default “digitalocean rails page”, it was because i kept running rails by using rails s …duh
anyways, i hope this could help someone in the future.
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