On Oct 24, 4:37 pm, nobrow <nob... / gmail.com> wrote:
> Still cannot get Ruby/Rails/Apache to play together. Have mod_ruby
> installed and loaded and I think I have setup fcgi properly, but when
> I try an "Hello Rails World" example I just get
>
> [code]
> #!/usr/bin/ruby18
> #
> # You may specify the path to the FastCGI crash log (a log of
> unhandled
> # exceptions which forced the FastCGI instance to exit, great for
> debugging)
> # and the number of requests to process before running garbage
> collection.
> #
> # By default, the FastCGI crash log is RAILS_ROOT/log/
> fastcgi.crash.log
> # and the GC period is nil (turned off).  A reasonable number of
> requests
> # could range from 10-100 depending on the memory footprint of your
> app.
> #
> # Example:
> #   # Default log path, normal GC behavior.
> #   RailsFCGIHandler.process!
> #
> #   # Default log path, 50 requests between GC.
> #   RailsFCGIHandler.process! nil, 50
> #
> #   # Custom log path, normal GC behavior.
> #   RailsFCGIHandler.process! '/var/log/myapp_fcgi_crash.log'
> #
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment"
> require 'fcgi_handler'
>
> RailsFCGIHandler.process!
> [/code]
>
> Please suggest solutions.

Typically I got it soon after posting. I hadn't configured Apache with
the required flag (-D FCGID) to make the fcgi module load. After that
there were just a load of annoying permissions problems, and now I am
finally on Rails.