Have any of you gurus successfully deployed a Rails app on Leopard Server lately? I'm totally sleep deprived and desperate now. (Who knows what I might do?)

Using capistrano to deploy I now have it at the point where the deployment appears to succeed but mongrel simply does not launch. When I try to launch mongrel manually from the shell it returns as successful but has apparently not started at all.

Does anyone have any idea how I can troubleshoot this? My brain has turned to mush but I have to have this server online yesterday. (Yes, literally yesterday!)

Does your app depend on gems that are defined in environment.rb that are not installed on your server?

Is your database.yml file on the server configured correctly? Most people don't keep it in source control so you might need to manually create it on the server if your cap recipes aren't doing this for you.

Does your production database exist?

I think a trip to #roro on freenode might be a quicker way to find someone to help you trouble shoot your server.

Thanks for replying, mate.

I doubt it but that's definitely worth double checking. It is, however, a very simple app.

Database config is correct (and is in source control) and I have confirmed that it was successfully exported to the production server. I'll check whether the deployment has created the required fields since it might narrow down the point of failure.

I might give that a try. It's always nicer working with fellow macaholics though, don't you think?

Try firing up script/console and see if that loads (it may give you some different errors), and then try running script/server (and make sure mongrel fires up and not webbrick)

Doesn't solve your issue, but I recently started using Passenger (mod_rails) which now works with Leopard's default Apache config and it's excellent. Certainly worth a look.