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Sam Kong
Sam Kong

Reputation: 5810

Rails on Ubuntu 64bit?

I am trying to set up a dev machine for rails apps. I am thinking of Ubuntu 64bit. I have experience with Ubuntu 32bit but not 64bit.

Has anyone experienced Ubuntu 64bit with rails? Can you share your experience?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1778

Answers (6)

Genís
Genís

Reputation: 21

We are working with ruby on rails servers on ubuntu 10.04 64 bits in production mode. High traffic ad great stability.

We use last apache2, ruby 1.9.2, rails 3.0.1

We are using gems like rmagick, feedzira,etc.. that need special ubuntu libraries.

We migrated from 32 bits without any problem.

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Also we have a development machine with ubuntu 10.04 64 bits, also we use RVM to manage better different gem sets.

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 0

Alec Hartman
Alec Hartman

Reputation: 41

The major difference between 32x and 64x systems is memory addressing.

A 32x system can't have more than 3.7(ish)GB of memory.

For any server that runs over 4GB 64x is required.

We've been running 64x Ubuntu with RAILs no problem at DigitalOcean so you shouldn't run into any issues.

Upvotes: 2

Chris Shanks
Chris Shanks

Reputation: 47

I am currently running and using Ubuntu 11.10 64bit as my main OS and am programming with Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.2.2.

After installing all the necessary gems such as Ruby, Rails and a javascript engine such as Node.js and/or Therubyracer, you just need the individual gems that you personally use.

I have had no problems what so ever, so thoroughly advise it.

If your having any trouble, There is a blog that explains setting up using a Virtual box but the steps are the same for a full installation.

Upvotes: 0

Aditya Sanghi
Aditya Sanghi

Reputation: 13433

Very high memory usage was seen on 64bit ubuntu vs. 32. bit

Upvotes: 0

Esse
Esse

Reputation: 3298

I have no problems running Rails on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bits.

Upvotes: 3

ffoeg
ffoeg

Reputation: 2336

We run rails apps internally on Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (64-bit). No traps or unexpected pitfalls encountered. Haven't tried any newer versions though.

Upvotes: 1

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