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Jan 7, 2011

Installing RVM + Ruby + Rails + Passenger + nginx on CentOS

I recently had to install all of this ^ on a CentOS machine.  I found myself jumping all over the place trying to figure it out.  This isn’t the first time I’ve had to do this, and it probably won’t be the last time, so I decided to document my journey! This is not a...

Nick Herro | January 7, 2011 10:29 am
Posted in Development, Sysadmin | 8 Comments

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