Today I bought an enterprise license of mod_rails (Phusion Passenger)

I think it's the coolest piece of server software, right after apache and rails!

mod_rails
C'mon support those guys - they just made our lives (deployment-wise) much easier.

Getting Javascript and CSS files working with passenger (locally)

After looking around why my .js or .css files won't load, I found that my Apache's error_log had a lot of these lines:

[Thu May 22 01:27:26 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/art/development/projects/rails/rchat/public/javascripts/application.js, referer: http://rchat_prod.local/

Adding AllowOverride and the Order directives, fixed it:

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName rchat_prod.local
  DocumentRoot /Users/art/development/projects/rails/rchat/public
    <Directory "/Users/art/development/projects/rails/rchat/public"%gt;
      Options FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride None
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>