apache-passenger-rails-vagrant

Apache+Passenger Vagrant box for running Ruby on Rails applications

Usage

Configure your Rails app's Gemfile to include the Passenger gem:

gem "passenger", ">= 5.0.25", require: "phusion_passenger/rack_handler"

Then you can start the Vagrant and it will launch the app using Passenger:

$ RAILSAPP_DIR=/path/to/rails/app vagrant up

Details

Base box: peichman-umd/ruby (1.0.0) with:

• CentOS 7.0 64-bit
• RVM 1.26.11
• Ruby 2.2.4
• Rails 4.2.6

Port 80 on the guest is forwarded to 8000 on the host.

The RAILSAPP_DIR on the host is mounted as /apps/src on the guest.

Installs the most recent version of Phusion Passenger (5.0.26 as of March 29, 2016). Configures Apache with mod_passenger to serve the Rails app found in /apps/src on port 80.

Also installs NodeJS and NPM, for compiling Javascript resources in Rails' asset pipeline. This relieves the need for the Rails app to include "therubyracer" or similar gems in its Gemfile.

Reloading with a Different App

If you wish to change the Rails app that is loaded by Passenger, you can run the following from the host:

$ RAILSAPP_DIR=/path/to/new/app vagrant reload
$ vagrant ssh -c /vagrant/scripts/railsapp.sh

The railsapp.sh ensures that the Apache virtual host is configured, and runs bundle install in the /apps/src directory.