Redmine

It's a bit difficult, but they are out there. Probably the best option is to rent a "slice" of a server--which gives you full control of a virtual server.

Check out http://www.engineyard.com/ for another option. Their prices for a rails computing "cloud" seem fairly reasonable.

I have had success getting Redmine working under Joyent's server, but there are a few hurdles you have to jump through. Rails apps, and Redmine in particular don't do well in that shared host environment which covers all your low cost solutions. The problem is the low RAM ceiling forced on all users, and the fact that you are sharing resources with up to 100 different people. Eventually you run into problems.

Here's my short list of Ruby on Rails hosts I give to clients:

• EngineYard
• Slicehost
• Linode
• RimU hosting
• Heroku

I've used or had clients use all of them and they all come highly recommended. I personally use Slicehost with a backup server at Linode. Heroku is a good option but it's harder to setup for non-developers. http://demo.redmine.org is running on the free Heroku plan.

Eric Davis

Thanks man I installed redmine on vm machine & put it in my partner's home I used Bitnami's installer for the installation.

Uzi

I was happily using Heroku, until I pushed the redmine : 0.8.5 and got the error below. Looks like the engines plugin is attempting to initialize a directory, and heroku won't let it write to file.

I'm a noob to rails. Any ideas how I can get around this?

Thanks in advance!

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in `mkdir': Read-only file system - /disk1/home/slugs/46281_2e4c6d7_6855/mnt/public/plugin_assets - Heroku has a read-only filesystem. See http://docs.heroku.com/constraints#read-only-filesystem (Errno::EROFS)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in `fu_mkdir'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:217:in `mkdir_p'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:215:in `reverse_each'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:215:in `mkdir_p'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:201:in `each'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:201:in `mkdir_p'
from /disk1/home/slugs/46281_2e4c6d7_6855/mnt/config/../vendor/plugins/engines/lib/engines/assets.rb:16:in `initialize_base_public_directory'
from /disk1/home/slugs/46281_2e4c6d7_6855/mnt/config/../vendor/plugins/engines/lib/engines.rb:86:in `init'
... 24 levels...
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.0/lib/rack/builder.rb:29:in `instance_eval'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.0/lib/rack/builder.rb:29:in `initialize'
from /home/heroku_rack/heroku.ru:1:in `new'
from /home/heroku_rack/heroku.ru:1

Any traction on this error? Anybody else been successful on Heroku. I'd also like to run Redmine on Heroku.

I'm running several Redmine installs on Heroku including http://demo.redmine.org. For the error above make sure you:

1. Start Redmine locally
2. Request a page
3. Stop Redmine
4. Add the contents of the directory public/plugin_assets to git
5. Push to Heroku

What happens is when Redmine starts, the plugin system (Engines) copies files to the public/plugin_assets directory. Since Heroku is a read only file system, you need to add those files to git so Heroku doesn't try to generate them.

Eric Davis

If its of any help at all, Dreamhost offers Ruby and Rails support. I don't know how good it is, but I've been very happy with their other offerings. And, bless 'em, they support ssh access.

John

Just to respond to the initial question, there are a couple of specialized Redmine hosting providers now, one of them is my company: Planio provides *Redmine Hosting* that comes with hosted SVN and Git repos and a number of extras.

As for heroku, there is a heroku fork of redmine on github. I haven't tried it yet and it seems a little out-dated, so use at your own risk...

Dreamhost is pretty strict with their memory allocation. They tout Rails hosting as a feature of their shared service, yet just loading up the rails environment when Passenger starts up on access takes about 70% of your allocation, and the ruby processes get killed often mid-request as a result.

http://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-128886-post-134103.html#pid134103

I would recommend to use Redmine dedicated hosting by RedmineUP, as regular shared hosting may stop host Ruby On Rails at any time.

Dear Marat, it is generally accepted policy on redmine.org to disclose your affiliation with a service when "recommending" or linking to it. It would be great if you and your colleagues could take this into account in the future rather than pretending to be a regular user of a service. This borders on spam unfortunately.