refinerycms installed on droplet help

Posted October 25, 2014

anyone has installed refinerycms on digitalocean that can give me a hint, I am lost trying to make it run

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Andrew SB • October 27, 2014

In order to install Refinery CMS, the first thing you need to do is get RVM and Ruby installed:

\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh
rvm install ruby

Now we need to install MySql and imagemagick:

sudo apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev imagemagick

Now install Rails and the refinerycms gem:

gem install refinerycms

Then, create a new Rails (note that refinerycms does not yet work with Rails 4) project using the refinerycms template:

mkdir /var/rails
cd /var/rails
rails _3.2.19_ new my_app -m http://refinerycms.com/t/2.1.0

Finally, create a Refinery application with:

refinerycms my_app

We can start it with:

cd my_app
rails serve

It should now be visible at http://your.ip.address:3000/refinery

For more information on getting Refinery CMS up and running, check out their documentation.

For more information on how to deploy a Ruby on Rails appplication in production, check out this tutorial: How To Deploy a Rails App with Passenger and Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04

yysrael13 • October 28, 2014

thank you so much!!! I follow your instructions and everything works

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