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Rails Shared Hosting Gotcha #3,942

2008-10-07T23:42:54-05:00

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Rails Shared Hosting Gotcha #3,942

2008-10-09T04:30:15-05:00

You saved my ass...

We also host our website as a rails app on dreamhost and had the same error. After I manually updated rails in the vendor folder, everything worked again.

Oh yeah.. the mod_rails (passenger) checkbox was unchecked in my dreamhost control panel?!?! So I had to re-enable that. Don't know what they did.

Cheers

Rails Shared Hosting Gotcha #3,942

2008-10-09T07:52:39-05:00

Thanks for your shameless plug Grant :p

Glad this helped you Rasmus, I was banging my head against a wall for a few hours with this one. It only made it worse that Dreamhost refused to help.

Rails Shared Hosting Gotcha #3,942

2008-10-09T21:59:19-05:00

Seriously, I owe you one. This fix just saved my butt as well!

Thanks A TON!!!

Rails Shared Hosting Gotcha #3,942

2008-10-11T14:12:43-05:00

Thanks a bunch, Justin. I was just warned about Dreamhost a few months ago and then I get burned by this yesterday while out of town. I've got one site I'm hosting for a client that I haven't wanted to move, but now, I'll work expeditiously at setting up a VPS, most likely with another company.

Rails Shared Hosting Gotcha #3,942

2008-10-14T07:33:05-05:00

Thanks, this brought my site back up again. I've been meaning to move my rails apps to my Media Temple VPS for a while and i knew it would bite me..

Rails Shared Hosting Gotcha #3,942

2008-10-16T17:52:53-05:00

Thanks for that - saved my ass on my 3 Dreamhost Rails sites too.

Tis a shame - makes me really think twice about using Rails for anything any more. Most of the sites I make are fairly low budget, so using a VPS isn't really an option. But why should I miss out on using all the good stuff Rails has to offer, simply because hosting it is either expensive or a pain?

Makes me think more and more about just using one of the PHP frameworks and having done with it - if only because then I can be pretty sure that sites will stay up. I quite like the look of Akelos framework (akelos.org), though haven't tried it yet.

Rails Shared Hosting Gotcha #3,942

2008-10-17T07:37:21-05:00

Dave S, For my personal blog I have opted for a PHP platform since I was tired of dealing with fixing a down Rails site, however I absolutely hate making coding changes on it and tend to just not touch it at all.

I've experienced more Rails downtime since I posted this entry, and am receiving the same sub-part support. Something must've changed with Dreamhost because in the past my sites were always fixed within a few hours. I hope they realize they're scaring their customers away.