Yes, I too have joined the ranks of the people that successfully gotten a rails app to work on DreamHost.com! This is something that I have been toying with since August 2007!
There have been lots of things that helped:Â One is this posting: www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
the other is advice from a Houston Ruby user’s group member, Neils, that said to make rails run in the “root” of the domain and not in a sub folder.
Anyway, here is my rails app: a simple Hindi<->English dictionary foo.ispeakhindi.comÂ
Now that I have been able to get a rails app from dev to pro, it is time to start doing some serious rails development. Now, I need to get my dev environment up to date with the latest version of rails. There were some surprises like “start_form_tag” and “end_form_tag” are no longer used. And I really need to get a GUI to start doing my development in. I think I will try NetBeans though I have heard it is slow…
And I think I need to get capistrano working to make it a one click to deploy. Got to get source control up and running. Maybe I should install redmine to do my project/version management? Need to figure out what I am going to use to write test scripts in. Rspec? Anyway, lots to do… but I can see the process from beginning to end.. So now time to start get cranking…