Installation with mongrels (From aexl on the forums)

I finally got the trick, here is how it worked for me:

• ignore the forum post about rails installation
• ignore support staff that only points you to the forum post
• use cpanel/rails to create rails app and webforwarder
• delete rails app template and unpack tracks here
• do some environment magic (*)
• in cpanel/rails start webapp

• what environment magick is needed?

in config/environment.rb add this line:

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|

1. some hosting might need this (hostgator does)
   config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins )
   

Installation with fastcgi (From kikontrack on the forums)

Hostgator recently added support to run rails app with fcgi

• First check in the rubygems menu of the cpanel that you have the proper rails version and that the fcgi gem is installed
• Unzip Tracks in /home/YOUR_USER/rails/ (so will be located in /home/YOUR_USER/rails/tracks/)
• In my cpanel or shell, create mysql database and mysql user for Tracks
• In /home/YOUR_USER/rails/tracks/config/database.yml, setup the proper adapter for mysql
• Then in /home/YOUR_USER/rails/tracks/ I run rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
• I created the entry in public_html with a symlink ln -s /home/YOUR_USER/rails/tracks/public/ /home/YOUR_USER/public_html/tracks
• I added a .htaccess file in /home/YOUR_USER/rails/tracks/public/ which contains the following

AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application failed to start properly"

• In /home/YOUR_USER/rails/tracks/config/environment.rb uncomment ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] = ‘production’
• Add the line ENV[‘RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT’]=“/tracks”
• And add the line config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins )
• Adjust the subdir in site.yml to “/tracks”

Then open your browser to http://YOUR_DOMAIN/tracks and you should be good to go ;)

Installation with fastcgi and SSL (From kikontrack on the forums)

Reproduce above steps then

• Create a file dispatch-tracks.fcgi /home/YOUR_USER/public_html/
  #!/usr/bin/env ruby Dir.chdir("/home/YOUR_USER/rails/tracks/public") require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment" require 'fcgi_handler' RailsFCGIHandler.process!

• Change the .htaccess rewrite to: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~YOUR_USER/dispatch-tracks.fcgi [QSA,L]
• Change the line ENV[‘RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT’]=“/~YOUR_USER//tracks”
• Adjust the subdir in site.yml to “/~YOUR_USER/tracks”

Then open your browser to https://YOUR_DOMAIN/~YOUR_USER/tracks and you should be good to go ;)
You will get a SSL mismatch error has the SSL is sign for hostgator domain name, but you can import the certificate in your browser to not get the warning every time