Click to Call on stage with Sinatra, Rack and Passenger

I have been preparing an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with Adhearsion, Asterisk and all of the available components installed and pre-configured to be made public soon. For the AMI I decided to get the Sinatra web app included with the Click To Call component up and running as a daemon.

I used a combination of Rack and Passenger, since they make the process so easy and production ready. To this end I have updated the README and Click To Call component I covered in my previous blog post to include the how to and Rack configuration file required.

To get this up and running do the following:

• Install the Apache Webserver
• sudo gem install rack
• sudo gem install passenger (follow instructions here for compiling the Apache module)

Copy the files and directories in ~ahn-project/components/restful_clicktocall/web directory to the appropriate file system location for your Apache web server. Add these virtual host settings to your Apache configuration (ie – /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf):

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName ec2-174-129-89-20.compute-1.amazonaws.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/restful_clicktocall_web/public
</VirtualHost>

Change line three to reflect your configuration. Restart your Apache web server and then connect to the site you configured. For more options I recommend referring to the Passenger documentation found here.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Amazon Machine Image!