How to Create Ruby Web Applications
Last modified: August 12, 2021
Overview
In cPanel & WHM version 66, we deprecated the legacy Ruby codebase and plan to remove it in a future release. This legacy Ruby codebase includes Ruby on Rails applications. We will not support any applications you create with the following interfaces:
cPanel’s Ruby on Rails interface (cPanel >> Home >> Software >> Ruby on Rails).
cPanel’s RubyGems interface (cPanel >> Home >> Software >> RubyGems).
The Ruby Gem installer feature in WHM’s Module Installers interface (WHM >> Home >> Software >> Module Installers).
This document describes how to create and install Ruby web applications in cPanel & WHM version 66 and later that function on the Phusion Passenger® platform.
To use this feature, the cPanel account must possess compiler access in WHM’s Compiler Access interface (WHM >> Home >> Security Center >> Compiler Access). If the account does not possess compiler access, the system will return an error similar to the following message:
make: execvp: gcc: Permission denied
Create a Ruby application
ruby27
to ruby24
in the following instructions.
To install a Ruby application in cPanel & WHM version 66 and later, perform the following steps:
- Install Ruby on your system. To do this, install the
ea-ruby27-mod_passenger
module in the Ruby via Passenger section of the EasyApache 4 interface (WHM >> Home >> Software >> EasyApache 4).Note:If you wish to add environment variables to your application, install the following additional RPMs:
The
ea-apache24-mod_env
module.The
ea-ruby27-ruby-devel
module.
For more information about environment variables, read cPanel’s Application Manager documentation.
Create a Ruby web application on your server. For examples of web applications that you can create, read the following documentation:
Use cPanel’s Application Manager interface (cPanel >> Home >> Software >> Application Manager) to register the application.