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apache / fcgi / debian / rails

Getting ruby and rails to run on debian can be a challenge. One of the challenges is getting the fcgi gem installed. This page helped, but fell short. A few more hours of digging and I found the problem.

Here is what I did to install the fcgi gem on debian. I hope it saves you some time.


# aptitude install ruby1.8-dev
# wget http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/fcgi.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
# ./configure
# make
# make install
# gem install fcgi

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