Does anyone have any experiences installing in Media Temples (gs) rails containers? I followed their knowledge base article for setting a up a rails app and when I install tracks it tells me ...

Error executing command:
application failed to start, there doesn’t appear to be a rails application in /home/XXXX/containers/tracks

Any help is appreciated =)

I don’t have any experience with Media Temples. I often have made the mistake to try to start tracks in the wrong directory. With svn exports, you sometimes get long directory structures like {{{/home/lrbalt/src/tracks/trunk/tracks }}}

Is /home/XXXX/containers/tracks the root of your tracks install? You should have an app directory in it, i.e. /home/XXXX/containers/tracks/app

yes it is the root dir of tracks, I did a svn checkout of the current tag into the tracks container directory ...

#/home/XXXX/containers/tracks: ls
README_FIRST app/      config/  doc/  log.tmpl/  script/  tmp/
Rakefile     components/  db/    lib/  public/  test/  vendor/
#/home/XXXX/containers/tracks:

Using rails 1.2.6, also tried with 2.0.2 neither worked.

looks ok to me. I see that you did not create a /log directory (mv log.tmpl log). Did you also configure tracks in /config?

I had already configured the database in the config directory. Looked through the rest of the files the only thing I saw that needed changing was the salt, which i don’t think would need to changed in order to run the app. After moving the log tpl directory the app did start, however all I get is a 403 forbidden when trying to access it =/

are there any error messages in the logs?

There weren’t. which led me to believe it was not setup properly. Completely restarted from scratch completing the steps so far, and got a 500 server error =) Checking the logs it was db related, fixed and up and running! yay!

Thanks for your help Reinier!

congratulations. Have fun!