I started moving an app over to slicehost today, and was impressed with how fast it is now.

I used josh’s slicehost cap recipes

The one hangup was that passenger initially gave me a cryptic error screen. It was pretty easy to figure out what the issue was though (db password).

On Ubuntu, passenger will log startup errors to /var/log/apache2/error.log

Second, passenger gives an error screen if you don’t have gems installed.

So, the thing to do was setup all the gems for ruby enterprise, there is a script to install them into ruby enterprise here

If you want to install gems by themselves later, you can use:

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sudo /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-[version]/bin/gem install [gem name]

e.g.

sudo /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090113/bin/gem install image_science

And, kabang, it all just works. So much easier than the hours it took me to do it a year ago.