ApachePassenger

Configuration of Apache with Phusion Passenger

Passenger is not interesting when you are in development mode. It is only useful for production.:

sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-passenger
sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

Eventually passenger-install-apache2-module will tell you to copy & paste some settings into the Apache configuration file; something that looks along the lines of:

LoadModule passenger_module ...
PassengerRoot ...
PassengerRuby ...

A typical Virtual Host on Apache2 and Passenger :

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName markus.ec-nantes.fr
  DocumentRoot /home/markus/markus/public
  <Directory /home/markus/markus/public>
      Allow from all
      Options -MultiViews
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Much more simple than the one with Mongrel :D

Be Careful : There is a bug with Rake and Rails. Passenger use the production environment given with MarkUs. If you have issues loading the schema in the database, just give the same database name to the production and the development environments (in config/databases.yml)