How to Create Ruby Web Applications

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Overview

In cPanel & WHM version 66, we deprecated the legacy Ruby codebase and plan to remove it in a future release.

Note:

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

To install a Ruby application in cPanel & WHM version 66 and later, perform the following steps:

Install Ruby on your system via the ea-ruby24-mod_passenger EasyApache 4 RPM. To do this, run the following command as the root user:
```
yum install ea-ruby24-mod_passenger
```
Note:
If you wish to add environment variables to your application, install the following additional RPMs:
- The ea-apache24-mod_env module.
- The ea-ruby24-ruby-devel module.
For more information about environment variables, read our Application Manager documentation.
Create a Ruby web application on your server.
Use cPanel’s Application Manager interface (cPanel >> Home >> Software >> Application Manager) to register the application.

The documents in this section describe how to create Ruby web applications, such as Redmine®, Sinatra™, and Jekyll®, on your cPanel & WHM server.