Question

Deploy Rails app to digitalocean using caprover

Posted on April 21, 2021
DigitalOcean Droplets Ruby on Rails
Asked by abdelp

I’m trying to deploy my Rails 5 app to digital ocean using CapRover. The problem is when some gems require some other packages to be installed, like ovirt-engine-sdk, that needs xml2-devel. When I run:

caprover deploy

It raises the next error:

extconf.rb:29:in `<main>': The "libxml2" package isn't available. (RuntimeError)

I’ve tried to install them manually from the digital ocean console, but it doesn’t work. Investigating a little I found that I might need to use a Dockerfile instead.

How can I deploy my project and indicate the dependency libraries needed for the gem packages?

Submit an answer

This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator