
Open RadRails and on the navigation pane (on the left) right-click and select New > Rails Project.You may want to follow these anyway if you are not using a Rails IDE. If you don’t have a text editor that can do Unix line returns (or aren’t sure if you do) take the steps below.This was a personal preference and not required by any means.

In other words, I changed the app directory from x to y and then created a symbolic link of x. What I did to get around this was I renamed my actual rails app directory and then created my symbolic link with that name. This caused me problems because I wanted my symbolic link to match the name of my application. NOTE: You cannot have a symbolic link with the same name as a directory. You will now be able to use website/link to access the pages. Select the rails app and enter a link name, such as “church” or “blog” (without the quotes).In the second box click Show Rails Apps.Go back to the CGI Admin window and create a symbolic link:.I skipped the log and tmp directory and just created these directories manually since I didn’t want to upload their contents. Connect to your site with FileZilla and copy all files located in your rails app directory.This is optional but the FTP steps listed here are using FileZilla. While waiting wasn’t horrible, I was anxious to continue working. I ended up waiting on my database to exit a pending status for some time. NOTE: I’d suggest performing your database creation early on in the process.

Remember: the user name you enter will be the name of the created database. On the Hosting Manager Control Panel, MySQL and select create a new database.On the Hosting Manager Control Panel, choose CGI Admin.Hopefully, the process has been more streamlined and these steps are no longer needed.

It’s been about a over year since I wrote this and thing may have changed greatly then. One last thing before I get into the steps: I have no clue whether or not these steps will work any longer. While this is way off-topic from my normal dating posts, I thought it might be helpful to provide the information here for anyone else struggling with the GoDaddy/Ruby on Rails combination. I was looking through some old documents recently and found steps I had created for myself in getting everything to work with GoDaddy (something that I found rather difficult). Eventually, I decided to record my online dating experiences and that is how this site reached its current state. Over the next few months, due to situations out of my control, I realized I was not going to be able to use the site for my original purposes. Back when I first got (my original domain name), my intention was to utilize a technology known as Ruby on Rails.
