HOWTO: Make system-wide RVM installations work with cron, monit, delayed_job, and passenger

Posted on November 4, 2010 by matthew

System-wide RVM installations are recommended for production deployments, but because /usr/bin/ruby is no longer the “correct” ruby, you need to tell all your moving parts about RVM.

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Installing Phusion Passenger on Ruby 1.9.1, Nginx, & Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on May 17, 2010 by matthew

I wrote this a while back, before I knew about RVM. The Ruby Version Manager has a bunch of features that makes it better than macports for ruby and gem installation. Read about it here.

Getting ruby 1.9.1 and nginx and passenger and ubuntu to all play nicely is fairly straightforward, but it’s not just “apt-get” and “gem install” lovin’.

Making ruby 1.9.1 the default ruby is OK. Follow these steps:

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HOWTO: Make system-wide RVM installations work with cron, monit, delayed_job, and passenger

Installing Phusion Passenger on Ruby 1.9.1, Nginx, & Ubuntu 10.04