Question

I have a rails application and I want to start the server automatically whenever the machine boots up. Right now I cd to the directory and then type the rails s command. How can I configure my machine to run my Rail server on boot? I am using Ubuntu and Rails 3.0.0.

Answer 1

You can use a cron job for this. To add the cron job use the command crontab -e. Than you can define a cron job that runs at boot and reboot with @reboot command.

So you’d have something like:

@reboot cd /home/[path to project] && rails server