I use RVM in development and it is a great tool, but I am curious.. If
passenger can only run "one" ruby what is the advantage of installing RVM in
the server? Can you create gemsets?


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:13 AM, dsadaka <[email protected]> wrote:

> Norbert,
>
> You can install multiple Ruby stacks on the same machine using RVM.
> (Ruby Version Manager)  However, to run more than one version of
> Passenger, you'll have to fire up another instance of your web server
> and use a proxy pass.  Excerpt from
> http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/integration/passenger/:
>
> Q: Can I run multiple projects under passenger with each project on a
> different ruby version?
>
> A: Not at this time. Passenger currently only supports running it's
> projects under *one* ruby. You can get this behavior using a proxy
> pass.
>
> I'm not sure, however, what the repercussions of running Passenger
> under one version of Ruby and a project under another.  With an RVM
> based installation, Passenger is running in an isolated stack with
> it's own gems, etc.  The apache config points to that stack.  Unless
> someone chimes in and shoots it down, I would think it's worth a try.
>
> Have you looked into RVM? http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/basics/
> Have you looked into hosting your new site somewhere else?  Heroku is
> free for smaller sites.  If you have a large data requirement you can
> use Amazon S3 for about 0.15 / GB / month.
>
> HTH,
> Dan
>
> On Mar 16, 2:05 am, Norbert Melzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have an app that is in rails 2.3.10 on my server, the author does not
> > develop it anymore but changes are forbidden due too licensing. On the
> other
> > Hand I am a rails 3 app that should run under the same server.
> >
> > They should have different subdomains, resulting in oldapp.example.comand
> > newapp.example.com. But how can I achieve this behavior?
> >
> > First try was to install rails 2x and 3x side by side but that is
> resulting
> > in various errormessages flooding my logs in both applications.
> >
> > Given is Apache 2.2 with an 3 month old passanger, ruby 1.8.x, rails
> > versions as stated above.
> >
> > Is there a way to have the applications work in paralel or have I to
> > backport my own app to rails 2?
> >
> > I have root access to the server it self, but as already said the
> > application is not under active developement any more and I cant modify
> it
> > because of the licensing. Porting it would take way to much time too.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Norbert
>
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