#122 Passenger in Development

Aug 11, 2008 | 7 minutes | Tools

Tired of juggling multiple Rails apps around with script/server? See how to set up Passenger in development so each one has its own local domain name.

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Sorry to make this platform specific. It looks like Passenger isn't available on Windows.

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sudo gem install passenger
sudo passenger-install-apache2-module
mate /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
sudo apachectl graceful
mate /etc/hosts
tail -f log/development
touch tmp/restart.txt

          /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
        
LoadModule passenger_module /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.2/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.2
PassengerRuby /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName railscasts.local
  DocumentRoot "/Users/rbates/code/railscasts/public"
  RailsEnv development
  RailsAllowModRewrite off
  <directory "/Users/rbates/code/railscasts/public">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </directory>
</VirtualHost>


# /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 railscasts.local