Running Ruby on Rails with NGINX

Ruby on Rails is a full web application framework, based on the Ruby programming language. As with a more traditional framework such as Django, Rails is based around a standard Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. This makes it well suited to rapid development which is also highly performant and feature packed.

Getting ready

Although there are a number of different application servers for Rails, one of the more popular is Passenger. With the highest performance and great documentation, Passenger's popularity is well deserved. This recipe has been tested with Ruby 2.3, Rails 4.2, and Passenger 5.0.

We can install Passenger via gem:

gem install passenger

To integrate with NGINX, this requires...