From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-09-07T22:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [Newbie] What folder to upload to?

John Hamman wrote:
> I have
> a remote web server I want to test my programming on but I am used to
> just uploading a file (php or .net) and running it in the root folder
> for that page. Ruby seems different and I haven't really figured out
> this part of it.

Depends where you're hosting. They may or may not support Ruby.

Sinatra is a Rack application, and so needs to run in an environment 
which can make Rack calls.

If you manage the webserver yourself: install Apache2 and Phusion 
Passenger. The documentation for the latter is very good.

If you have a user shell account on the webserver: you can run your 
Sinatra app as a standalone webserver process using "rackup". It will 
listen on a different port, so the URL will be something like 
http://x.x.x.x:4567/

You can probably run Rack apps under fastcgi, but this isn't really very 
well supported these days.

If you want to use a third party hosting service: look at heroku. It's 
free for small deployments.

HTH,

Brian.
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