Deployment help

Rails Deployment
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Hello all

I need some advice.

I am having problems deploying rails apps.

I have a site5 account. And I was able to get a few really small apps
running but it was an awful process. And they ran slow, slow, slow.

I did some reading and it looked like a VPS would be the way to go.

So now I have a slicehost account.
I followed this build process

And I have everything installed. I also have php and mysql working.

But I don’t know anything about Apache2

I don’t know how to connect a rails app to Apache2.

A sym link?

I guess I have everything installed but have no idea how to make it
work.

Oh well it is all one big process right

I don’t mind reading or buying books if anyone wants to recommend some
resources…

But any help or a point in the right direction would be greatly
appreciated.

Way over my head
Kirk

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But I don’t know anything about Apache2

I don’t know how to connect a rails app to Apache2.

A sym link?

I guess I have everything installed but have no idea how to make it
work.

Kirk,

You can either connect your app to Apache via FastCGI or Mongrel.
Mongrel is the best. FastCGI sucks.

See
http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you/

Best of luck.

I’m itching to get my own slicehost account. Can’t wait.

Xin

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Kirk,

Yeh check out Coda’s post as it is a great resource. You might also
find this article useful that I recently wrote up about using Debian
Etch w/ Apache2 as a Rails app server:

http://depixelate.com/2007/6/14/perfect-rails-stack-part-deux

Good luck.

–
Zack C.
http://depixelate.com