nginx.conf

user  mauricio users; #this should be the username and the main group of the user that's going to deploy the application
worker_processes  4;

error_log  logs/error.log;

pid        logs/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    passenger_root /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2;
    passenger_ruby /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby;

    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request '
                      '"$status" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip  on;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  _; #put your host or ip here, "_" means ANYTHING
        root /home/mauricio/NetBeansProjects/sample_social_network/public; #this should be pointing to your application PUBLIC directory
        passenger_enabled on; # this is required
        rails_env production; # the Rails environment that your application is going to run
        rails_spawn_method smart; # this spawn method is the one that uses less memory
    }
   
}