title: proper permissions for a rails app
body: <p>Nginx is giving me a 403 Forbidden error.  It looks like my permissions are wrong.  This is what I have going on my local machine:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  drwx------ 13 sean sean  4096 2010-07-10 13:17 .
    drwxr-xr-x 41 sean sean  4096 2010-07-13 17:55 ..
    drwx------  6 sean sean  4096 2010-07-09 16:45 app
    drwx------  5 sean sean  4096 2010-07-13 17:54 config
    drwx------  3 sean sean  4096 2010-06-20 14:44 db
    drwx------  2 sean sean  4096 2010-06-20 14:31 doc
    drwx------  3 sean sean  4096 2010-06-20 14:31 lib
    drwx------  2 sean sean  4096 2010-06-20 14:31 log
    drwx------  5 sean sean  4096 2010-07-10 20:28 public
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean   307 2010-06-20 14:31 Rakefile
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean 10011 2010-06-20 14:31 README
    drwx------  3 sean sean  4096 2010-06-20 14:31 script
    drwx------  7 sean sean  4096 2010-06-20 14:31 test
    drwx------  6 sean sean  4096 2010-06-20 14:31 tmp
    drwx------  3 sean sean  4096 2010-06-20 14:31 vendor
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>/public</p>
  
  <pre><code>  drwx------  5 sean sean 4096 2010-07-10 20:28 .
    drwx------ 13 sean sean 4096 2010-07-10 13:17 ..
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean  947 2010-06-20 14:31 404.html
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean  930 2010-06-20 14:31 422.html
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean  948 2010-06-20 14:31 500.html
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean    0 2010-06-20 14:31 favicon.ico
    drwx------  2 sean sean 4096 2010-06-20 14:31 images
    drwx------  2 sean sean 4096 2010-06-20 14:31 javascripts
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean  204 2010-06-20 14:31 robots.txt
    drwx------  2 sean sean 4096 2010-07-09 09:58 stylesheets
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>/config </p>
  
  <pre><code>  drwx------  5 sean sean 4096 2010-07-13 17:54 .
    drwx------ 13 sean sean 4096 2010-07-10 13:17 ..
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean 2795 2010-06-20 14:31 boot.rb
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean 1351 2010-07-13 17:54 database.yml
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean 2133 2010-07-10 12:49 environment.rb
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean 2074 2010-07-09 16:40 environment.rb~
    drwx------  2 sean sean 4096 2010-07-10 12:58 environments
    drwx------  2 sean sean 4096 2010-07-10 12:54 initializers
    drwx------  2 sean sean 4096 2010-06-20 14:31 locales
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sean sean 2212 2010-07-13 17:54 routes.rb
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is the best way to set permissions?</p>
  
  <pre><code> server {
      listen       80;
      server_name  name.org;
      root /path/public;
  
      passenger_enabled on;
      rails_env production;
    }
  </code></pre>