# Best production environment for 2008! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 7, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-production-environment-for-2008/145254 "2008-08-07T08:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_CSHess)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-production-environment-for-2008/145254/1 "2008-08-07T08:16:47Z")
Hi, I’m not sure if I’m just not googling the right things, but I can’t find a post about a production environment any later than early 2007. Things seem to change so fast in the rails world, what with mod\_rails out now, and people trying all kinds of crazy stuff. What do people use in the real world? I’m looking for something that can scale very easily… I want to know “the right way” to do it. I realize that is a loaded question, but I mean I’m not interested in methods only appropriate for light loads. (my app will be a medium load). If it won’t mess me up, I’d like to use apache. I’m familiar with it already, and it would be nice to have some php stuff running in parallel. Thanks… links are fine, as are the correct terms to google 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_CSHess)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-production-environment-for-2008/145254/2 "2008-08-07T08:21:28Z")
Is this a good method? I think I’ve read about the apache proxy mongrel cluster thing in a couple of places > **[Rails production server setup and deployment on Ubuntu/Debian · devroom.io](https://www.devroom.io/2007/06/20/rails-production-server-setup-and-deployment-on-ubuntudebian/)** > > Ariejan de Vroom's personal website on software engineering, electronics tinkering and car mechanics. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_CSHess)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-production-environment-for-2008/145254/3 "2008-08-07T08:23:48Z")
Our environment: many local servers (for development) on individual’s computers one staging server one production server Changes are done on the dev machines, specs are run, changes are (usually) checked, and then uploaded to staging. Staging is then updated with the latest version, tests are run again and then when that all passes we do cap deploy to production. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_CSHess)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-production-environment-for-2008/145254/4 "2008-08-07T08:26:43Z")
Oh, and for our servers we use Apache with mod\_rails. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_CSHess)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-production-environment-for-2008/145254/5 "2008-08-07T15:05:43Z")
Thanks Ryan, is mod\_rails working out well for you? It’s definitely easy to set up, but when I first tried it (on my local computer), there was a 1 second latency for requests… almost like it was using CGI or something. Are there any tricks to a mod\_rails deployment, or is just upload and go? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Sean\_CSHess](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_CSHess)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-production-environment-for-2008/145254/6 "2008-08-07T15:16:15Z")
This site lists the different production environments in the order they became popular (hopefully for good reasons). Looks like I’m going to try mod\_rails. Thanks! [http://www.rubyinside.com/28\_mod\_rails\_and\_passenger\_resources-899.html](http://www.rubyinside.com/28_mod_rails_and_passenger_resources-899.html)