How to specify a web address to a rails application?

Question

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I have a rails application, that I would like to start on boot. Also if I start the server from console like

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Answer 1

You can use pow for this. Its a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X.

** Edit **

Prax is an alternative for Linux OS

Answer 2

If you don’t want to edit your hosts file you can also make use of localtest.me. Simply access your website with any subdomain like example.localtest.me:3000 or www.localtest.me:3000.

Answer 3

Edit /etc/hosts to add

127.0.0.1 myapp

Also, start with rails s -p 80 if you don't want to specify the 3000 port in the browser. This can interfere with an Apache process already listening to the 80 port.

EDIT : To make it work with Apache :

Let the Rails app on the 3000 port and enable mod proxy for Apache, in order to ProxyPass requests incoming to the myapp host.

There is several examples here : httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html