New Ruby On Rails knowledge base article Added

[rando]

I've finally gotten the time to update the bluehost ruby on rails knowledge base article. This is much more comprehensive than the old version and holds your hand the whole way through, even if you're not a programmer (though it does help to be a programmer if you would like to write web applications using ruby on rails ). Using this tutorial you should be able to set up a basic ruby on rails application, and assuming you're a decent programmer, you'll be well on your way to developing a more full-featured ruby on rails application.

http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/inde...&root=8&id=232

[areidmtm]

I couldn't get that URL to work, but this one does work!

http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/inde...&root=8&id=232

[rando]

I couldn't get that URL to work, but this one does work!

http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/inde...&root=8&id=232

Oh, right. I guess I shouldn't have used the internal url

My url has been fixed.

[dvessel]

Cool, I'm going to have to look into it. If anyone on OSX needs a test environment for this check out Locomotive. -arstechnica link

I'll find out soon enough how well it treats non-programmers.

Thanks for the writing it.

[sesstreets]

I dont know that much about RoR but Im glad that you updated it for those who care

[Dallas Crilley]

Very nice work Rando, I've been interested in Ruby/Ruby on Rails recently; in fact one of my main selling points with BH was that they supported Ruby. I'll be sure to look at your tutorial after I finish with the other stack of languages that I've been putting off learning.

[areidmtm]

I went through it and found it very helpful and easy. Although I don't think that I'll ever use ROR, becasue I'm happy with PHP...but maybe in the near future I'll make the switch.

[sesstreets]

People say that RoR is the future...but Im not so sure about that. from what I hear its not exactly the easiest to setup. Ill stick with php+mysql anyday

[eddye]

I am having problems to make my RoR app to work on BlueHost. First time I tried to just upload a complex application. It isn't working at all. I thought that might be the missing gems (very few gems are installed on BlueHost). Then I tried with another app that uses only standard gems (no extra plugins). It doesn't work. Then I tried the tutorial step by step to see if rails is working. I am unable to use ./script/generate to generate the scafold for my DB tables.

I would appreciate any help. I took the BlueHost hosting services only for RoR support. I used to do with PHP (more than 5 years), but RoR changed my live, I think that I will never touch PHP again, but I really need a reliable RoR hosting for that.
Thank you for your time,
eddye

[JoeP]

The tutorial is a good start, but...
FastCGI?
Ruby Gems?
Ajax support?
Symbolic links?

All of the RoR books and generic tutorials seem to be based on the assumption that you both own and know how to administer your host computer, web server, and database. This is most often not the case for we devoted BH subscribers

I would suggest a BH RoR Wiki that would allow both the support team and subscribers to contribute their "gems" of knowlege gained from facing and overcoming the obsticals imposed by using BH shared servers.

just my 2 cents
joe