UPDATE: that didn’t work well, now I’m using the passenger 3 from the gem which comes with REE. No installation of passenger from brightbox, only the REE, and then run the passenger-install-apache2-module. Done ;-)

A small post on how to install Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 10.04.

add:

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deb http://apt.brightbox.net lucid main

to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/passenger

Get the public key to satisfy apt-get:

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wget http://apt.brightbox.net/release.asc

Install the key:

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sudo apt-key add release.asc

Get the latest version of REE from http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/download.html

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wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71100/ruby-enterprise_1.8.7-2010.02_i386_ubuntu10.04.deb

Install this package:

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sudo dpkg -i ruby-enterprise_1.8.7-2010.02_i386_ubuntu10.04.deb

Install passenger:

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sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger

Restart apache:

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sudo service apache2 restart

Done!