I cannot use passenger for my ruby on rails application on dreamhost

Question

I want to do some programming in ruby on rails on my Dreamhost server, so I connected via ssh and created a small application. Then I started the server and it worked. The problem is, that after some time the server kills itself. So I tried to activate Passenger in the user panel (which also has the advantage, that I don't have to connect to port 3000). Now I could only see the welcome page and every time, I wanted to display another page it gave me a 404 error. Now I don't understand, why the app works on the server included in the app, but not on the apache server.

Maybe you can help. Thank you.

Answer 1

Have you tried following the steps at http://railstips.org/2008/12/14/deploying-rails-on-dreamhost-with-passenger?

Answer 2

The secret sauce being that you need the gems bin directory on your path. For example, /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin. It's funny that I never see that mentioned anywhere, even in guides that claim to be from-the-scratch.