title: Rails based EC2 AMI
body: <p>I trying to navigate my new EC2 setup and was hoping to find an AMI setup for Rails.  I've been having trouble.  Basically, I'm looking for something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>* Apache 2.2
  * Ruby Enterprise Edtion (REE)
  * Passenger
  * MySql Installed and configured with Ruby
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Anyone have an AMI with a basic rails stack they could point me to?  </p>
  
  <h3>Moved Answer up here:</h3>
  
  <p>Thanks for the responses/ideas. I've seen most of these options. I think I'm going to go with a clean Linux AMI, and then use something like this to customize it myself:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-install-a-ruby-18-stack-on-ubuntu-810-from-scratch-1566.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-install-a-ruby-18-stack-on-ubuntu-810-from-scratch-1566.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Also, yes I plan on running Rails on a single EC2 instance as an alternative to a VPS. If I use a reserved instance I can get basically a dedicated machine and 1.7GB of RAM for about $22 per month. That beats any VPS I've found. There are other costs and burdens, but I'm going to continue investigating if it is possible.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks. </p>