Phusion Passenger 2.0 RC 2 released
A number of issues in 2.0 RC 1 have been discovered. So here’s Phusion Passenger 2.0 release candidate 2. 
If no major issues are found, this will become 2.0 final.
Changes
- Improved operating systems compatibility
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2.0 RC 1 triggered some kind of GCC compiler bug. MacOS X and some SuSE versions are affected. This has been fixed (issue #77).
Furthermore, a compilation problem on Fedora 9 has been fixed (issue #86).
- Improved Rack compatibility
- A number of Rack compatibility problems have been fixed. Thanks to Magnus Holm for contributing these fixes.
- Other minor fixes
- See issues #73 and #49
How do I upgrade to 2.0 RC 2?
Via a gem
Please download the 2.0 RC 2 gem, then install it with the command:
gem install passenger-1.9.1.gem
Next, run:
passenger-install-apache2-module
Please don’t forget to copy & paste the Apache config snippet that the installer gives you.
Via a native Linux package
Neil Wilson from Brightbox has kindly provided an Ubuntu 8.04 package for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at:
http://apt.brightbox.net
Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:
deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main
(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb anstruction, and then run ‘apt-get update‘).
Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:
apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger
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Congratulations guys
Out of interest, are there any plans to include support for maintenance.html files out of the box in upcoming releases? (unless it is already there and I’ve missed it?)
Someone sent a patch. Needs to be looked at and verified that it works well.
Awesome
Just thought I’d also note, the text above for the download link still says RC1
Thanks guys … RC1 has been running pretty stably on two apps I have going (one actual production) but I’m glad to have this one too.
You guys are doing an amazing thing for the future of Ruby on Rails.
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@Darcy: Oops. Fixed.
Congrats, it’s a great products that runs perfectly on my FreeBSD 7 server along with R8EE. Keep up the good work.
This is annoying… I download the gem, cd into the directory it downloaded into, and run the install command but i get “ERROR: could not find passenger-1.9.1.gem locally or in a repository”. What am I doing wrong?
I have the same problem as Andrew, on Mac OS 10.5.3, I think with the apple-supplied ruby. It doesn’t seem to find the gem even if I specify the full path. I expect this is a problem with my setup rather than the passenger gem, I suppose I should just try from source.
@Andrew and @Ben. I too had the same problem having downloaded the gem using Safari. Downloading with Firefox sorted it for me. Something to do with auto-decompressing I think.
Starting apache with RC2 causes apache to crash and start up on my MacBook 10.5.3
Umm yeah I meant not start up.
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