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Very Usefull links:

• http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/9/24/debian-etch-mongrel-clusters-and-surviving-a-reboot
• http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/495

Problem: Deploy a rails app written in debian lenny (rails 2.1) into this stable web-server (etch)

Solution: Put everything inside your lib/vendor rails application (search google about it and good luck …

The problem start playing with rails is that most tutorial out there are based on rails 1.2.6 and doesn't work in rails 2 which is now the standard in debian lenny.

First install ruby and rubygem from debian packages.

Then install rails 1.2.6 in a local …