Installing Tracks on Bluehost

I have a Bluehost account and thought it would be nice to try out Tracks.

I mostly followed the Tracks installation instructions and the Bluehost Ruby on Rails article.

1. SSH to your Bluehost server.
2. mkdir ~/rails # if not created
3. cd ~/rails
4. wget http://bsag.bingodisk.com/public/files/tracks-current.zip
5. unzip tracks-current.zip
6. cd ~/rails/tracks-1.7 # or whatever the current version is
7. Login to your Bluehost control panel, and make a subdomain "tracks".
8. cd ~/public_html/
9. rm -fr tracks/ # Delete the directory that the cpanel just setup
10. ln -s ~/rails/tracks-1.7/public tracks # setup a link to your tracks rails app
11. cd ~/rails/tracks-1.7
12. vi public/dispatch.fcgi # or whatever editor you prefer
13. Change the she-bang line to #!/usr/bin/ruby
14. vi config/environment.rb
15. uncomment this line: ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'production'
16. rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production # to setup your database
    
17. browse to http://tracks.yourdomain.com and login!

I opted to use the default DB of sqlite, since I am just evaluating Tracks. You could setup MySQL too