The machine I'm starting with is not a totally fresh install of Debian, so I can't guarantee that the following methods are going to work at all times. Please modify the wiki if you've got improvements.
Preamble
When it comes to Rails, I take the heretical view that I'd rather let rubygems handle package installations than let Debian's apt do it. Everything written below assumes that you've already got your application running fine on the target deployment box using WEBrick, that your Rails installation was done via Rubygems, and that your deployment is just a matter of getting Rails to work with Apache2 on Debian.
My system is Debian Testing (Etch) as of current writing 10 August 2006.
Rails was installed on this machine using apt (in order to get all the necessary dependencies). Then I uninstalled the rails package, and re-installed rails using rubygems.
Commands:
- apt-get update
- apt-get install libapache2-mod-fcgid libmysqlclient15-dev ruby1.8-dev
- a2enmod fcgid
For Debian Sarge (3.1 Stable), this worked for me:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnUbuntuDebianTestingAndUnstable is the first thing I'm gonna try to work with.
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