# Hosting other Ruby on Rails App Side by Side with Discourse **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Tags:** hosting\ **Created:** [Julho 15, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-other-ruby-on-rails-app-side-by-side-with-discourse/17610 "2014-07-15T15:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![vicatcu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vicatcu/32/116471_2.png) [@vicatcu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vicatcu)\ **Post date:** [Julho 15, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-other-ruby-on-rails-app-side-by-side-with-discourse/17610/1 "2014-07-15T15:49:27Z")
I get that discourse is a Ruby on Rails application. I set it up on a Digital Ocean droplet following [these instructions](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-digital-ocean.md). The instructions are _awesome_ and it just works which is really great, but there’s definitely an element of magic to it, as a relative novice like me. I have the feeling that the meat of the installation is in the “Clone the Official Discourse Docker Image into this /var/docker” step and that’s where I suspect the whole Ruby on Rails setup happens behind the scenes. I don’t have a good grasp of Docker, but I at least went [here](http://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/) and watched the video. So anyway, now I have an interest in using this Digital Ocean droplet to develop and host an additional custom Ruby on Rails application on a different subdomain than my Discourse site (in principle this could even be another instance of Discourse right?). I just don’t know where to begin though. If I ssh to my server rvm isn’t a recognized command, rails isn’t a recognized command. Can anyone offer advice/pointers on how to deploy my own rails app on the same server? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-other-ruby-on-rails-app-side-by-side-with-discourse/17610)._