Today, I needed to a Ruby 1.9.3 project running. I have several small 1.9.2 websites and apps running on a Dreamhost VPS. So, I got to work. Fortunately, I was able to stitch together a process in an afternoon, between Dreamhost's helpful wiki articles, and a few general Stack Overflow articles to embellish my understanding about a few unix commands along the way.

• start
• get a VPS
• create a super user
• update bash profile
• install RVM - http://wiki.dreamhost.com/RVM
• .rvmrc in the Rails project
• install Passenger (patch it)
• update Hosting and Cron, and Site Proxy for Passenger

On boot, I got an error that a .png file in my app was not precompiled.

ActionView::Template::Error (image-name.png isn't precompiled):

To precompile assets, I ran this command:

rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production

I was up and running off of Dreamhost's defaults. We'll see how this goes, but I was glad to have the ability to customize the environment.