Setting up MacOS Sierra for Rails Development

December 15, 2016

One of the only differences I've noticed is installing mysql is slightly different.

Step 1: Install XCode Command Line Tools

Install xcode.

xcode-select --install

Step 2: Install and prepare Homebrew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew doctor
brew update

Step 3: Install rbenv

brew install rbenv ruby-build openssl

Setting up MacOS Sierra for Rails Development

Lets Encrypt Setup and Auto Renew (NGINX)

July 20, 2016

Installation and Setup

sudo su  - root # NOTE: This has to be run as root. Be very careful!
cd /usr/sbin
wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
chmod a+x certbot-auto
./certbot-auto

Nginx Configuration

Add the following to your nginx server configuration block vim sites-enabled/yourdomain.com

  location ^~ /.well-known/ {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
  }

Lets Encrypt Setup and Auto Renew (NGINX)

Ubuntu 16.04 Rails/Nginx/Passenger/MariaDB Server

October 25, 2016

Step 1: Install Ubuntu

Step 2: Add a deploy user and optionally a user for yourself.

Assuming you're logged in as root add these users and login as "not root."

adduser deploy
adduser [yourname] #optionally
vim /etc/group
# add your users to the sudo group like so: 
  sudo:x:27:isaac,deploy
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# add to file or if they exist set the flags to no.

Ubuntu 16.04 Rails/Nginx/Passenger/MariaDB Server

Setting up Rails, Passenger, Nginx, Mysql and xdelta3 on RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX

October 29, 2014

Step 1: Install Redhat RHEL

Step 2: Add a deploy user

adduser deploy

Step 3: Update and Install dependencies

Make sure that each line completes before running the next. Don't just copy the lines in all at once or it will use the beginning letters of one line as an answer to questions the first may ask.

sudo su - root
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"

Setting up Rails, Passenger, Nginx, Mysql and xdelta3 on RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX