username@yoda ~/tracks $ rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production—trace
(in /home/.hammacher/beetle_b/tracks)
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
rake aborted!
RubyGem version error: actionpack(2.1.0 not = 1.13.6)
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:259:in `require_frameworks’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:133:in `process’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:112:in `send’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:112:in `run’
/home/username/tracks/config/environment.rb:20
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `require’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `require’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/tasks/misc.rake:3
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in `call’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in `execute’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:238:in `synchronize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:588:in `invoke_prerequisites’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:585:in `each’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:585:in `invoke_prerequisites’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:577:in `invoke_with_call_chain’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:238:in `synchronize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2019:in `invoke_task’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `each’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1991:in `top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1970:in `run’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1967:in `run’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/bin/rake:31
/usr/bin/rake:19:in `load’
/usr/bin/rake:19

I’m not a Rails person. Any ideas?

(At the moment, I may try to install 1.6 on a local machine, copy the DB over. Upgrade locally. And then re-install from scratch on server and just move local DB over to host. But that’s a pain and I’m sure I’ll screw up…).

I’m not familiar with RoR, but I do have a lot of programming experience.

That being said, I successfully installed tracks on my bluehost account (it runs cPanel), all through the SSH. However, the server keeps stopping shortly after I log out of the SSH and I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to get the RoR server to stay alive?

Also, I’ve done enough RoR tutorials to see that many apps are accessed through the “/public” folder, but tracks doesn’t seem to use this method—it uses a port instead. Any way to change that so that tracks uses the /public directory sicne I’m having a lot more success getting my web server to allow access to those files.

thanks,

BP

1) Register for heroku and get familiar with it.  Take a look at the site and learn about the way it integrates so nicely with git. To use Heroku it helps to be familiar with rails and git, but it’s still easier than most rails deployments.  You’ll have to install the heroku gem using “[sudo] gem install heroku”

2) checkout Tracks from github.  I checked out the master branch a couple of days ago, and it seems to work fine for me.

3) Customise Tracks for heroku. 
  a) This is the key bit.  Heroku runs your app on a read-only file system, so bundle-fu can’t write to the local directory like it wants.  I worked around this by commenting out the <bundle do>  and <end> lines in app/views/layouts/standard.html.erb.  Unless you do this you’ll get errors as soon as you view a page.
  b) Copy config/site.yml.tmpl to config/site.yml, customise it as required, and check it in to git.  This is important because we need git to upload it to heroku, so it needs to be checked in.  You might have to remove the site.yml line from .gitignore to achieve this.  There’s no need to customise database.yml, heroku will do this automatically on the server.
  c) In the tracks directory, type “heroku create”.  This will return a URL and remote git URI, as well as configuring a remote in git called heroku

4) Upload.  Type “git push heroku master”.  Heroku will compile tracks server side, and hopefully print a success message

5) type “heroku open” and your new site should appear.

6) Optional - add a CNAME record to a personal domain and get heroku to recognise it. See http://docs.heroku.com/custom-domains

This is from memory, and now I’ve written it down it looks more complicated than I intended, but I wanted to recommend Heroku, and give some tips on how to host Tracks there.

Hope it helps,

Gavin.

i am having trouble getting to install tracks on my shared server at eleven2 in an apache environment.
i have never, _ever_ used ror and would really appreciate if you guys could help me out…

i uploaded all the files, created a database, configured config/database.yml and /site.yml, created the app under ruby on rails in cpanel and tried to get it installed via terminal with ‘rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production’. which did not work.

‘—trace’ yields the following:

======
user at domain dot com [~/public_html/tools/track]# rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production—
trace
(in /home/user/public_html/tools/track)
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
rake aborted!
undefined method `cache_template_loading=‘ for ActionView::Base:Class
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:530:in `send’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:530:in `initialize_framework_settings’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:529:in `each’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:529:in `initialize_framework_settings’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:526:in `each’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:526:in `initialize_framework_settings’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:154:in `process’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:112:in `send’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
:112:in `run’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/config/environment.rb:9
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/depe
ndencies.rb:153:in `require’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/depe
ndencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/depe
ndencies.rb:153:in `require’
/home/user/public_html/tools/track/vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/misc.rake:3
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:617:in `call’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:617:in `execute’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:588:in `invoke_prerequisites’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:585:in `each’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:585:in `invoke_prerequisites’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:577:in `invoke_with_call_chain’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2027:in `invoke_task’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `each’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2044:in `standard_exception_handling’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1999:in `top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1977:in `run’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2044:in `standard_exception_handling’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1974:in `run’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/bin/rake:31
/usr/bin/rake:19:in `load’
/usr/bin/rake:19
==============================

cheers,

dmd.

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How do I fix or troubleshoot this?

I am using Apache 2.2 with Phusion Passenger and MySQL. I’ve got PassengerPoolIdleTime set to 0 (ie, keep the rails processes alive indefinitely). Tracks, version 1.7, is running in production mode.

I’m open to starting again if anyone can provide up to date installation instructions.  If not, can anyone give me an idea of some things to check?  This application is far, far, too complicated to install.  It needs to move in the direction of being an install as simple as wordpress or movable type or something…

I’m old to computers, GTD, and the web; new to Tracks, which I like a lot.

Mac OS X 10.5.6, btw.

I found Tracks a couple of years ago, but couldn’t grok the install (decidedly not a code geek).

Found a Lifehacker article this week that offered an easy install via BitNami (http://bitnami.org/stack/tracks), which directed me to Morph eXchange.

This “installation” seems to be working fine, so my question is:

Do I need a web host to run Tracks?

Thanks for helping the clueless.

*what environment magick is needed?
in config/environment.rb add this line:

[it might make sense to include this to tracks as i dont think it makes harm to others…]