In this post I will show you how to host our rails application with unicorn and nginx
The first step is obviously to install nginx for that go to your control terminal then type
sudo apt-get install “nginx”
After the installation go to /etc/nginx/sites_enabled/ – (or wherever you installed nginx)
in this sites_enabled folder you have default.conf file delete that file and create new file called nginx.conf
server
{
listen 80 default;
#server_name example.com;
root /home/ideology/test_server_nginx/public;
try_files $uri/index.html $uri @unicorn;
location @unicorn {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
}
error_page 500 501 502 503 /404.html;
}
save the file with above code
Now In your rails application folder gemfile.rb add gem “unicorn” and run bundle install
Then start your rails application with unicorn with port 3000
/application_folder/unicorn -p 3000
Then you can seen your application in browser with nginx server at port 80
Thats all! very simple yes?……
To change environment to production
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
and then in your boot.rb file add this lines
require ‘securerandom’
ENV[‘SECRET_KEY_BASE’] = SecureRandom.hex
then start your rails application unicorn server
RAILS_ENV=production unicorn -p 3000
And thats all your environment is changed to production now ,
But this is just a fast start up only this is not the correct solution to host your application you need additionally unicorn configuration files for further reference http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
Navin !!! 