Upgrading Passenger (mod_rails) to 1.0.5

A changelog for the recent versions of Passenger (1.0.3-1.0.5) was recently posted. I decided to do a quick upgrade to 1.0.5 following the steps I’ve used previously. Those steps are documented as follows.

• gem update
  • Update gems which should pull in passenger 1.0.5 if passenger is installed.
• passenger-install-apache2-module
  • This will compile the passenger module. Unfortunately the first screen of information doesn’t report the version however it is reported after pressing enter and again at the end.
• edit apache2 configuration
  • I have to change the LoadModule passenger_module and RailsSpawnServer directives to reference the 1.0.5 directory.
• /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  • Apache must be restarted for the changes to take effect.