Use Ruby 2 on Engine Yard

This document describes how to use the Ruby 2 feature on Engine Yard.

Get started with Ruby 2 on Engine Yard

• Prerequisites
• Use Ruby 2 with Engine Yard
• More Information

Prerequisites

• This article assumes you already have an Engine Yard account. If not, see Sign up for an Engine Yard Account.
• To use Ruby 2 in your environment, you must use the Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 stack option (stable-v4).
• Your environment must include other component versions as described in the Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 Tech Stack.
• You must use 64-bit instances (32-bit instances are not supported on this distribution).

• In order to deploy your app, you must use the engineyard gem (2.1.0.rc1 or newer) with this feature.

  The engineyard gem can be installed by running:

  gem install engineyard

  For more information, see the Engine Yard gem repo on GitHub.

  Note: If you aren't sure which version of the engineyard gem you have installed, you can check with:

  $ ey --version
  engineyard version 2.1.0.rc1

Use Ruby 2 with Engine Yard

Important: We recommend testing in a staging environment before applying changes in a production environment.

To deploy a new app using Ruby 2

1. Ensure that your app meets all the prerequisites above.

2. Create your application in the usual way.

   Note: Your stack selections should be on the Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 Tech Stack.

3. Create a new environment in the usual way.

   Note: Your stack selections should be on the Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 Tech Stack.

4. Select the new Gentoo 12.11 Stack: stable-v4.

   This displays the configuration choices for your Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 environment.

5. Select the Ruby 2 Runtime that you need.

6. On the Configuration page, select the environment setup you need.

7. Click Boot this Configuration.

   Your Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 environment starts up with Ruby 2 runtime.

More Information

These other resources might help you:

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