How can I get root privileges in my Openshift app? I need to install additional gems to my Openshift virtual machine and it's impossible to do it without superuser privileges.
For login, I'm using SSH: ssh generated-hash@myapp-myns.rhcloud.com
I've already entered my id_key.pub to the Openshift web interface and I'm doing SSH with no password.
To install additional gems in openshift see this forum, copied from ramr answer:
So what you would need to do is add a Gemfile + Gemfile.lock to your app and then do a git push -- see https://github.com/openshift/rails-example for an example Gemfile+Gemfile.lock.
Steps to do that: 1. Create an appropriate Gemfile -- probably something like:
source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem 'whois'
gem "minitest"
local_gemfile = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "Gemfile.local")
if File.exists?(local_gemfile)
puts "Loading Gemfile.local ..." if $DEBUG # `ruby -d` or `bundle -v`
instance_eval File.read(local_gemfile)
end
On your workstation do a bundler install bundle install (you might need to gem install bundler before you can use bundler). That should create a Gemfile.lock - add that and the Gemfile and commit git add Gemfile Gemfile.lock, git commit Gemfile Gemfile.lock -m 'added deps' Push changes to your OpenShift App git push HTH