We're attempting to download and run the CartoDB stack on an Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instance dedicated just for it. So we've begun from a bare bones OS install.

We've gone through the install/configure README (https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb) and got through most of it without too much of an issue. But when it comes time to figuring out how to actually run the thing, we're at a loss. The readme doesn't even seem to explain how you're supposed to run the stack perpetually as a service, or even as separate components side-by-side.

The closest it seems to come is suggesting foreman but even that has come to a convoluted cluster**** of dependency issues to where I can't even add it to the gem bundle as described (and it doesn't help none of us have Ruby experience)

Do you have any pointers on where to go from here?

Even Google is utterly failing me at this point.