Installing Ruby on Rails with mod_fcgid in Fedora Core 5

RubyGems is the standard Ruby package manager. It's similar to apt-get, emerge, and other OS package managers.

1. Download RubyGems from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126

2. Extract, then run "ruby setup.rb"
3. Install the dependencies required using: gem install rails --include-dependencies

Installing FastCGI

The final steps

1. install mysql-devel rpm: yum install mysql-devel
2. install mysql gem
   gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-include=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql
   
3. Change database.yml to point to the correct mysql.sock file (say /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock)
4. install gem fcgi
   gem install fcgi --source http://rubyforge.planetargon.com/gems.rubyforge.org/ -- --with-fcgi-include=/usr/local/include --with-fcgi-lib=/usr/local/lib
5. Configure httpd.conf with the following for your virtualhost:

                   AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi .cgi
                   IdleTimeout 3600
                   ProcessLifeTime 7200
                   MaxProcessCount 8
                   DefaultMaxClassProcessCount 2
                   IPCConnectTimeout 120
                   IPCCommTimeout 60
                   DefaultInitEnv RAILS_ENV production
                   SocketPath /tmp/fcgid_sock/
   

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