Nginx Deployment

With NGINX we need to ensure our rack application file structure is such that the public folder is in the same folder as the config.ru folder.

The expected file structure is shown here http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#!/deploying_a_rack_app

A symlink is not good enough, it has to be a real copy of the 'public' directory. e.g.

sudo cp -r /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/octopusci-0.3.12/lib/octopusci/server/public/ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/octopusci-0.3.12/public

In addition a 'tmp' folder must exist: sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/octopusci-0.3.12/tmp

Finally, your nginx configuration can be as simple as:

user  octopusci;
worker_processes  1;
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
    passenger_root /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.19;
    passenger_ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby;
    passenger_user octopusci;
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;
	root /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/octopusci-0.3.12/public;
	passenger_enabled on;
    }
}