redmine (rails) + puma + lighttpd

Running redmine with a lightweight ruby on rails/webserver stack on a debian server – puma and lighttpd:

Assumed you’ve got both redmine and lighttpd already installed:

1. install puma gem: $ sudo gem install puma
2. caution: ArgumentError on ruby 1.8.7
3. get tools/jungle/init.d/puma to /etc/init.d/
4. get tools/jungle/init.d/run-puma to /usr/local/bin/
5. add a puma app: $ sudo /etc/init.d/puma add /your/app/path www-data
6. $ sudo -u www-data mkdir /your/app/path/tmp/puma

7. puma config in rails app /your/app/path/config/puma.rb

   $ cat your/app/path/config/puma.rb
   environment ‘production’
   pidfile File.expand_path( File.dirname(FILE) + “/../tmp/puma/pid” )
   state_path File.expand_path( File.dirname(FILE) + “/../tmp/puma/state” )
   threads 1,4
   port 8082
   activate_control_app
   

8. $ grep puma /your/app/path/Gemfile.local gem "puma"

9. lighttpd proxy config:

   $ grep 8082 /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-proxy.conf
   $HTTP[“host”] == “redmine.example.com” { proxy.server = ( “” => ((“host” => “127.0.0.1”, “port” => 8082))) }
   

10. $ sudo /etc/init.d/puma start

11. $ sleep 5 ; cat /your/app/path/tmp/puma/state

12. $ sudo update-rc.d -f puma defaults

Versions:

• ruby: 1.8.7-p358 (2012-02-08) [x86_64-linux]
• rails: 3.2.15
• lighttpd: 1.4.28
• puma: 2.7.1
• redmine: 2.4.0