No Ruby on Rails for Dreamhost
by Josh Staiger
Much as I've been very happy with Dreamhost, since I first started hosting with them, they don't currently support Ruby on Rails, a new technology that I'm itching to play with.
I recently sent an inquiry on to Dreamhost on their future plans for Rails support. Unfortunately, it doesn't look good:
From: support@dreamhost.com
To: josh@joshstaiger.org
Hello,
Currently we dont support Ruby on Rails and we really dont have any roadmap to upgrade our current version of Ruby as we receive very limited requests for it. However on our dedicated server offerings you would be able to run Rails as you would have complete control over the machine and could run system level applications that are unable on shared hosting setups. Let me know you if you have any more questions.
Thanks!
trey
I highly encourage any current or prospective Dreamhost customers to contact them (current customers contact form, prospective customers contact form) and request support for Ruby on Rails. As I've said, Dreamhost has been great, and I'd really like to stay with them, but unfortunately this is a sticking point that might cause me to get friendly with Textdrive.
Feel free to borrow from my form letter below:
From: josh@joshstaiger.org
(sent via form at https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=support.msg)
Hello,
I'm wondering if you are planning to add support for Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.org/) any time soon?
This is a framework that I would really like to be able to use on my dreamhost site.
I have noticed that TextDrive (http://textdrive.com/) is offering this functionality (along with PostgreSQL support as well). As much as I have been thorougly satisfied with Dreamhost, this is a feature that would probably convince me to switch hosting services.
Thanks!
UPDATE 6/17/2005: Dreamhost has just added Ruby on Rails support! See my latest entry, Dreamhost now on Rails!