Comments on: Sinatra on Dreamhost!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:11:42 +0000

That’s great. Thanks!

By: FernyB

FernyB — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:44:42 +0000

@Shawn, it works. Sometimes it will say merb-core not found but if you refresh, it will be all fine. That is the only weird issue…

The way I solved this issue for myself at least, was by using a cronjob that will just curl my site every 45 minutes because I think it is 60 minutes it will restart when there is no activity otherwise it just stays up.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:04:24 +0000

I see it can’t find merb-core. Does it work if you freeze Merb into your app? I’m considering getting a DH accout for a Merb app and would love to see this working.

By: DennisBB

DennisBB — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:49:53 +0000

Did you know guys that you can do (nc joyent.com 80 GET / HTTP/1.1) on joyent servers and they have a cool message in http headers. like

Served-By: Joyent
With: SecretSauce

By: Micah

Micah — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:07:58 +0000

fernyb,
there is now an error with passenger:

“no such file to load — merb-core”

hope you figure it out because I’m interested in trying sinatra and merb on my DH account!

Micah

By: fernyb

fernyb — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:43:08 +0000

@Taelor, I have merb installed check it out -> http://modrails.fernyb.net

By: taelor

taelor — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:41:08 +0000

still no luck, i emailed you back with more explinations.

By: FernyB

FernyB — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:44:51 +0000

@taelor, this is what I did,
1. Install Ruby and RubyGems on my shared account.
2. Install any gems I will be requiring.
3. Set the ENV variables in the config.ru so when you do a require ‘rubygems’ or require ’sinatra’ it can find YOUR installed gems.

If you want to see the code that I use for config.ru I have pasted it on pastie.
http://pastie.org/228319

For installing Ruby and RubyGems I followed this article:
http://nateclark.com/articles/2006/10/20/dreamhost-your-own-packages-and-gems
except you need to download the gems and install them locally by using
“gem install -l gemame.gem”

let me know if this helps.

By: taelor

taelor — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:37:29 +0000

Did you use the supplied config.ru files from the passenger website?

I tried to get this working with Merb a little while back, and had some problems, but I felt as if I was close. I too was having some require problems. Could you share any more specifices with me as to how you got this running?