Set up Jruby with apache and passenger in EC2
How to set up jruby with apache and passenger in amazone ec2. Step 1: First install jruby using please check the current version in the link . And make sure you are installing the bin version of it wget 'http://jruby.org.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/1.7.4/jruby-bin-1.7.4.tar.gz' Step 2: extract the tar file using tar zxvf jruby-bin-1.7.4.tar.gz Step 3: We need to set come environment variable so that it will be accessible from every other place. export JRUBY_HOME=/home/home_directory_name/jruby-1.7.4 export PATH=$JRUBY_HOME/bin:$PATH And Open the .bashrc file and put the path in their sudo nano ~/.bashrc PATH=$PATH:/home/ubuntu/jruby-1.7.4/bin Step 4: Now to check if jruby is properly installed or not put jruby-v If your system does not have java installed then it will show an error like /home/ubuntu/jruby-1.7.4/bin/jruby: line 395: exec: java: not found Don't worry we will install java to fix this. sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk apt-cache