Enable Passenger (mod_rails) on your Dreamhost account, then you can just upload Rails applications (or other Rack apps like Sinatra) to a directory and they wi

Enable Passenger (mod_rails) on your Dreamhost account, then you can just upload Rails applications (or other Rack apps like Sinatra) to a directory and they will run: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger I would skip CGI if your goal is to learn a framework like Rails. If you want to write a simple one-file web app in Ruby, check out Sinatra. But if you have some existing CGI scripts that you want to run, you can add the +ExecCGI option as described in http://wiki.dreamhost.com/CGI http://wiki.dreamhost.com/CGI