Instructions:
If you’ve already got Rails up and running but are just running into issues with Apache, see the bottom of this document.
You can build ruby and ruby-gems from source and there are some old instructions below. However if you have a fast internet connection, OpenBSD provides binaries to these same packages. As of OpenBSD 4.2 you get ruby-1.8.5p7 and ruby-gems-0.9.4p0. If you want ruby-1.8.6-111 I posted an article here. Ok, here is the binary way:
# Please choose a mirror near you
export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/packages/i386
pkg_add ruby ruby-gems ruby-iconv mysql-server mysql-client
gem install rails --include-dependencies
gem install mysql
Now here are the original build from source instructions.
- Install Ruby 1.8.4 from ports
- Install Ruby-Gems 0.8.11 from
ports
Next build and install the ports, note that you’ll need to add the package for iconv support after you build the package:
# cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby && make install
# cd /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gems && make install
# pkg_add /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/ruby-iconv-1.8.4p0.tgz
If all goes well you’ll have a working ruby (with iconv support) and gems binary ready to install Rails
Now to install rails:
# gem install rails
If you want \RedCloth:
# gem install \RedCloth
If you want FastCGI support (for production environments)
FastCGI using ports:
# cd /usr/ports/www/fcgi && make install
# gem install fcgi
FastCGI using packages:
# setenv PKG_PATH ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/packages/i386/
# pkg_add ${PKG_PATH}fcgi-2.4.0.tgz
# /usr/local/bin/gem install fcgi -r -- --with-fcgi-lib=/usr/local/lib \
--with-fcgi-include=/usr/local/include
Next you’ll need to…
Deal with Rails inside of the Chrooted Apache:
See HowtoSetupChrootedApacheWithRailsOnOpenBSD
Alternatively you can disable the httpd chroot using the -u option. See the httpd man page for more information. You’ll want to modify or add httpd_flags="-u" to /etc/rc.conf.local then start or restart Apache.
Using Rails with Lighttpd and \FastCGI
Assuming \FastCGI was installed as decribed above
Install Lighttpd* from ports
# cd /usr/ports/www/lighttpd && make install
Edit /etc/lighttpd.conf as described here
Start Lighttpd (add this to rc.local for automation)/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd.conf