[gary4gar]

DreamHost is mostly used for LAMP stack. you might want to Use heroku which offers first-class ruby support.

    https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/ruby

[mud_dauber]

Thanks - much appreciated. I've used Heroku to test a couple of "hello world" apps, but was hoping to use DreamHost's shared server account in order to learn the tricks of deployment for myself.