Upgrading your Ruby on Rails Container DETAILS: Upgrading your Ruby on Rails Container can be accomplished using the following steps: Login to the AccountCenter. Click on DOMAINS tab. Click on the (gs) GridContainers Icon: Click on the manage button for the Ruby on Rails Container: Click on the scale container button: Sele ... Applies To: (gs)

Upgrading your RubyGems repository UPDATES PENDING: This article is currently under construction as our Engineers address an issue regarding a recent RubyGems update to 1.3.6 on 02/20/10 WARNING: (mt) Media Temple only supports the basic operation and up-time of our (gs) Application Container Technology. Please consult our ... Applies To: (gs)

Ruby on Rails using Mongrel Clusters SUMMARY Mongrel is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby that is intended for hosting Ruby web applications using the Apache webserver. Proxying requests to a mongrel cluster is just one way of serving your Ruby on Rails web applications. STOP: The following steps require being logged in ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5

Ruby on Rails resources Details This article contains a list of various user-submitted Ruby on Rails (RoR) resources. The following links point to outside websites. (mt) Media Temple cannot take responsibility for the availability or correctness of the content they contain. KB Articles (gs) HOWTO: Initial Setup o ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

(gs) Ruby on Rails 502 Proxy Error OVERVIEW: Possible resolutions to 502 proxy errors. This is Part 4 of a series of articles for troubleshooting your Ruby on Rails environment or application. Please see (gs) Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting for additional articles in this series. Symptoms: 502 proxy or gateway errors Things yo ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Using eRuby on the Grid-Service Details: For certain applications, using the full Ruby on Rails framework is not necessary. eRuby may be an acceptable alternative. This article details how to setup eRuby on your (gs) service. According to eruby.info, eRuby is a "language implementation that allows the embedding of the Rub ... Applies To: (gs)

Ruby On Rails and trailing slashes on POST requests. Summary: This article explains how to work around a problem that may occur when using Ruby On Rails and sending POST or other types of requests where the URL ends in a '/name' fashion (eg: http://domain.com/files). The solution is a simple .htaccess directive. NOTE: [ The authoritative source f ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails Application Stops Responding (MySQL) OVERVIEW: Your Ruby application starts without error but your browser returns proxy errors. This is Part 3 of a series of articles for troubleshooting your Ruby on Rails environment or application. Please see (gs) Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting for additional articles in this series. Symptoms: ... Applies To: (gs)

Installing our Ruby on Rails Test Application WARNING: (mt) Media Temple only supports the basic operation and up-time of our (gs) Application Container Technology. Please consult our Scope of Support for further details. Ruby on Rails resources Initial Setup HOWTO Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting OVERVIEW: Installing our test applic ... Applies To: All Service Types

How can I install Typo on the (gs) Grid-Service? WARNING: (mt) Media Temple only supports the basic operation and up-time of our (gs) Application Container Technology. Please consult our Scope of Support for further details. Ruby on Rails resources Initial Setup HOWTO Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting Details: Typo is a popular Ruby on ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting OVERVIEW: This article will summarize ways to troubleshoot problems with your Ruby on Rails Container or applications. Symptoms: Ruby on Rails Container crashing 502 proxy or gateway errors Errors referring you to mongrel logs Your Ruby application starts without error but your browser ret ... Applies To: (gs)

Installing Radiant WARNING: (mt) Media Temple only supports the basic operation and up-time of our (gs) Application Container Technology. Please consult our Scope of Support for further details. Ruby on Rails resources Initial Setup HOWTO Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting Details: This article explains how t ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Developing Ruby on Rails applications on the Grid Details: While it is not the recommended method, it is possible to develop your Ruby on Rails application directly on your (gs) Grid-Service. After your application is set up (via the 'rails' and 'mtr' commands), you will need to switch it over to the "development" environment so that changes ... Applies To: (gs)

Running Ruby on Rails rake tasks from cron WARNING: (mt) Media Temple only supports the basic operation and up-time of our (gs) Application Container Technology. Please consult our Scope of Support for further details. Ruby on Rails resources Initial Setup HOWTO Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting Details: Rake is a RubyGem. Each (gs ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails ssl_requirement plugin Details: ssl_requirement is a plugin for Ruby on Rails that adds a way of specifying which actions in a controller require or allow https access. Without modification, the plugin will not function correctly on the (gs) Grid-Service. Our Ruby on Rails architecture involves proxying dynamic requ ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails and BackgrounDRb Details: BackgrounDRb is a ruby job server and scheduler. It's commonly used to offload long running tasks from a Ruby on Rails application. At this time BackgrounDRb is not supported in the (gs) Container environment as there is no facility for starting applications other than the Mongrel pro ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails and Instiki 0.11.0 Details: Instiki is a lightweight Ruby on Rails based wiki application. Version 0.11.0 of Instiki is compatible with the (gs) Grid-Service, however there is one modification that must be made due to the way that Instiki 0.11.0 is packaged. Instiki comes with a version of Ruby on Rails frozen ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails application installation requirements There are several steps that must be made in order to get a Ruby on Rails application up and running. Most of these steps are the same across hosting providers. This article contains the steps that are specific to the (gs) Grid-Service. If you experience any issues running a Ruby on Rails appli ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails Container closure conditions Details: The GRID has an automatic feature that prunes unused resources occasionally, (gs) Containers are sometimes subject to automatic closure. The reason that some (gs) Containers need to be reclaimed is that they require a certain amount of memory, CPU, network and other resources. As the m ... Applies To: (gs)

Getting started with Ruby On Rails WARNING: (mt) Media Temple only supports the basic operation and up-time of our (gc) Grid-Container. Please consult our Scope of Support for further details. Ruby on Rails resources Initial Setup HOWTO Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting NOTE: Throughout the course of this document, we wil ... Applies To: (gs)

Available Ruby Gems on the (gs) Grid-Service WARNING: (mt) Media Temple only supports the basic operation and uptime of our (gc) Grid-Container. Please consult our Scope of Support for further details. Ruby on Rails resources Initial Setup HOWTO Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting The GridContainer environment does not allow you to com ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails application on primary domain Details: Hosting your Ruby on Rails application on the primary domain of your (gs) Grid-Service takes no special extra configuration. This article assumes that you have already read the RoR Initial Setup article. New Application On a new application, simply use your domain as the webpath whe ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Debugging Ruby on Rails applications OVERVIEW: Understanding various ways to debug errors within your Ruby on Rails applications. This is Part 5 of a series of articles for troubleshooting your Ruby on Rails environment or application. Please see(gs) Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting for additional articles in this series. Symptoms: ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) How do I check my Ruby gems for proper versions? This article will have you install and run our test for bad gems script. This script will output info on any gems that are not installed properly and how to fix them. This is Part 2 of a series of articles for troubleshooting your Ruby on Rails environment or application. Please see (gs) Ruby o ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Shortcutting RMagick to allow rake tasks to complete Details: The RMagick gem that is available on http://gems.mediatemple.net/ has been compiled specifically for our containers. Because of the differences between the (gs) Container and our front-end Grid nodes, it doesn't currently load properly when you are logged in via ssh. This causes rake d ... Applies To: (gs)

(gs) Ruby on Rails Container Application Limits Here are the recommended application limits for each of the (gs) Ruby on Rails Container levels: Container Large Applications* Small Applications** Lite 1 2 Pro 4 8 Advanced 16 32 * Large applications are any that do any sort of image manipulation or are expected to handle ... Applies To: (gs)

View the Mongrel Logs for a Ruby on Rails application In order to view the mongrel logs for your Ruby on Rails application you will need to log in to your server using ssh. Then run the command below to show you the last 1000 lines in this example: tail -n 1000 /home/site_number/containers/rails/appname/log/mongrel.log Remember to replace site_ ... Applies To: (gs)

Using Ruby on Rails 2.0 WARNING: (mt) Media Temple only supports the basic operation and up-time of our (gs) Application Container Technology. Please consult our Scope of Support for further details. Ruby on Rails resources Initial Setup HOWTO Ruby on Rails Troubleshooting NOTE: This article only applies if ... Applies To: (gs)