Phusion Passenger is an Nginx module, which makes deploying Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions and ease of setup, while at the same time providing enough flexibility and reliability.
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Easiest way to install Phusion Passenger
1. Open a terminal, and type:
gem install passenger
2. Type:
passenger-install-apache2-module
Or, if you want to install the Nginx version instead:
passenger-install-nginx-module
And follow the instructions.
If you encounter any problems, please read the Users guide (Apache)/Users guide (Nginx) for troubleshooting tips and/or try the tarball below.
Other installation methods & downloads
Native Ubuntu Linux package
John Leach from Brightbox has kindly provided an Ubuntu 8.04 package for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at http://apt.brightbox.net.
Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:
deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main
(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb instruction, and then run ‘apt-get update’).
Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:
apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger
or, for the Nginx version:
apt-get install nginx-brightbox
Please also visit the package’s wiki page for more documentation about this package.
Download source code
To install Passenger from source code, extract the source tarball:
tar xzvf passenger-X.X.X.tar.gz
Then run the included installer:
./passenger-X.X.X/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module
or, for the Nginx version:
./passenger-X.X.X/bin/passenger-install-nginx-module
Older versions
Older versions of Passenger can be obtained from the RubyForge project page.
Ruby Enterprise Edition
You can transparently reduce memory usage of your Rails applications by about 33%, by using Ruby Enterprise Edition.
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