Installation steps

Enviroment where was installed and tested

• Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid \n \l installed over a virtual machine
• 512 Mb of memory
• 10 Gb in hard disk for the entire system

Debian Packages

• ruby1.8
• ruby1.8-examples
• rdoc1.8
• ri1.8
• build-essential
• ruby1.8-dev
• libsqlite3-ruby1.8
• libopenssl-ruby
• apache2-prefork-dev
• libapr1-dev
• apache2
• apache2-doc
• sqlite3
• git-core

Ruby

1. Download rubygems package ( from Rubyforge ) and copy to ‘server#:/opt/’ path or where you can unzip with tar command the file on the server

cp rubygems-1.3.1.tgz to /opt/
tar -xvzf rubygems-1.3.1.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.1
ruby setup.rb

Install gems

gem1.8 install rake
gem1.8 install pdf-writer
gem1.8 install spreadsheet
gem1.8 install geokit --version='1.3.0'
gem1.8 install railroad

1. Download passenger ( from ModRails) the version “passenger-2.1.3.tar.gz” and copy to ‘server#:/opt/’ path or where you can unzip with tar command the file on the server

cp passenger-2.1.3.tar.gz
tar -xvzf passenger-2.1.3.tar.gz
cd passenger-2.1.3
./bin/passenger-install-apache2-module

and then edit with some command line editor “/etc/apache2/httpd.conf” and add the next lines:

LoadModule passenger_module /opt/passenger-2.1.3/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /opt/passenger-2.1.3
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
PassengerDefaultUser root

To add a virtual website edit with some command line editor “/etc/apache2/httpd.conf” and add the next lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
         ServerName www.my_inventory_site.com
         ServerAlias www.my_inventory_site.com
         DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/APP_FOLDER/current/public
         RailsBaseURI /APP_FOLDER
         CustomLog /var/log/apache2/my_inventory_site.log "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"
</VirtualHost>

To prepare the place where will deployed the application

cd /var/www
mkdir apps

To use with a SQLite database in this case

cd /var/www/apps
mkdir databases
cd /var/www/apps/databases
touch inventory_production.sqlite3
chown root:root inventory_production.sqlite3
chmod 664 inventory_production.sqlite3

Setup for the application with Capistrano from your capify place (place where you have downloaded your workcopy of this application and well configurated in ‘ROOT_PATH/conf/setup.rb’ ), so.. do that

cd "ROOT_PATH"
cap deploy:setup

Make database.yml and site_key.rb share folder for the application (as APP_FOLDER)

cd /var/www/apps/APP_FOLDER/
touch shared/system/site_key.rb
touch shared/system/database.yml
chmod 664 shared/system/database.yml

Advice, you can copy site_key.rb from another place, for example from your workcopy at
‘ROOT_PATH/conf/initializers/site_keys.rb’ to the server doing that

scp ROOT_PATH/conf/initializers/site_keys.rb    an_user@:/var/www/apps/APP_FOLDER/shared/system

nano shared/system/database.yml

and add this code at ‘database.yml’ file

production:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: ../../../databases/inventory_production.sqlite3
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

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