RhoMobile

Installing RhoSync

Windows

If you’re running Windows, download the latest RhoSync windows installer. This installs the Ruby stack, Redis, Apache, and a default RhoSync application so you don’t need to generate one by hand.

Your RhoSync application folder will be located in C:\RhoSync\rhosync by default so you can skip to the generating a source instructions in the next section.

Mac OS / Linux

Prerequisites

  1. Ruby v1.8.7+

  2. RubyGems v1.3.7+

  3. Ruby Web Server – We test with thin, mongrel, and passenger. For production, we recommend deploying with thin or passenger. WEBrick, the web server that ships with ruby, is known to cause issues with HTTP headers/cookies and is not recommended.

Installing RhoSync Gem

To install the latest stable RhoSync gem, run:

$ [sudo] gem install rhosync

Installing Redis

Skip these steps below if you want to use the rhosync rake tasks to install redis. 

$ wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.0.4.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf redis-2.0.4.tar.gz
$ cd redis-2.0.4
$ make
$ ./redis-server