Dreamhost nightmare! Deploying Rails: failed to map segment from shared object

Question

I've been trying to deploy my website to dreamhost for the last two weeks. I've been reading blogs created in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

It seems like I fix one issue another pops up!

I've added the GEMHOME GEMPATH etc variables.

Now finally when I think I've got it working, I get this error: Error message:

Answer 1

Do you have a VPS? I wouldn't bother trying without a VPS.

I have a VPS with 450mb memory dedicated, running one production Rails 2 site with also one background job, app uses page caching a lot to save resources. I'm currently 'not' running a Rails 3 site. However, I have successfully deployed Rails 3 apps on my VPS for test purposes.

Most likely I would have to raise memory a bit to run a production Rails 3 site. Memory quickly becomes a problem.

Dreamhost will kill processes that take too much memory. When using a VPS Dreamhost will reset server that exceed dedicated memory.

Maybe you are just trying to load too much in memory? I'm not sure but anyway, without a VPS and raising memory I personally wouldn't bother trying.