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How to run rails application cloned from github?

I recently setup a droplet using one-click setup with “Ubuntu Ruby on Rails on 14.04 (Postgres, Nginx, Unicorn)”. Now I want to cloned my rails application from github to run on digitalocean.

How do I go about this? What are the procedures?

I tried for two days now. It still won’t display my application index page when I spin up rails server that I cloned from Github. It keeps showing the default “Digitalcoean Rails” page. And I can’t access my site from the browser at port 3000.

PLEASE HELP! : (

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laohasongkramsu • June 16, 2015

ok i figured it out

  1. make sure to create /home/index.html and point your route there before you push to git
  2. install git apt-get install git
  3. ssh to your digitalocean domain
  4. navigate to cd /home/rails
  5. delete folder rails
  6. clone your rails repo from github git clone YOUR_REMOTE_ADDRESS
  7. rename the downloaded repo to rails
  8. setup your db rake db:drop db:create db:migrate
  9. 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”

anyways, i hope this could help someone in the future.

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