Rails on Plesk (missing libraries and gems)

John Lane
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:37:52 -0000

Hello, my ISP (PlusNet) is switching their hosting platform to Plesk
which has RoR but there is little support provided by the ISP.

I''ve been trying to install an application and have hit the buffers
because there are various items missing (currently I''m stuck wanting
for
net/https for ActiveMerchant). Gem is not installed on Plesk and I have
limited access (no shell logon) to do stuff.

What I would like to do is identify my applications dependencies and
somehow freeze them into the vendor tree. Is this possible ?

By this I mean freeze not only rails but any other gems my application
relies upon. Also things that aren''t gems (I don''t think
net/https) is a
gem (I think it was libopenssl-ruby on my Ubuntu dev platform).

Any help would be appreciated. I would like to get a real application
running on this Plesk platform.

Many thanks