Liz, the point above about using RVM (or similar) is that you can install in your user account the latest versions of ruby and rails without issue, however, being a longish user of Dreamhost myself (although I dont host 'customer' websites there myself), because of their lack of official support for later stuff (last time I looked)
That being said however, you can get a VPS with someone like Digital Ocean (or many others) for anywhere from $5 a month upwards, and for a small traffic site, that is probably more than enough. If you are not doing 'devops' functions (i.e you know how to code in Ruby/Rails but are not aware of all the nuances of running a server - patching/upgrades etc), then you may need to learn a few things, however, if you want to talk to me off-list I can give you some pointers. Looking at Dreamhosts current offfers, you are probably paying more than $5 a month for the hosting anyway. Depending on where you want to host (country), you can find lots of very good offers on www.lowendbox.com, which will give you VPS you (virtually) control, so you can install what you need on them for (in most cases) %5-$10 per month. On Friday, 5 June 2015 13:00:37 UTC+1, Elizabeth McGurty wrote: > > My site -- www.echomarket.org -- is humanitarian in purpose, and > non-profit. Which is not to say that it doesn't deserve the best > environment. I would be more than happy to embrace the most recent > version of Rails. However, I have been constrained by finances at both the > level of a Rails IDE and my web server (host) provider. When my site > experiences more participation and hopefully corresponding donations, then > I will look into assuming more expense. However, in the meantime, if you > are aware of a free or very inexpensive Rails host that is committed to > upgrading with new Rails releases, I would love if you share that > information. > > Thanks, > > Liz > > > On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 9:41:16 AM UTC-4, James Davis, PhD wrote: >> >> Obsolete is a relative term. Would you buy a car when there was no way to >> obtain replacement parts? As a soldier, I wouldn't want to go into battle >> with WWII equipment....but it is better than using Civil War equipment. >> >> Rails 3.x was a great version with many improved features but there no >> way I would start a new project with 3.0.3. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/fcd60286-9531-4354-a5c3-9706fd9cb8b1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
