# Deployment options with Merb or Camping **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-options-with-merb-or-camping/85000 "2007-02-09T04:29:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-options-with-merb-or-camping/85000/1 "2007-02-09T04:29:46Z")
Hi all, Sorry if this is off topic, I’ll be happy to post elsewhere if it’s inappropriate. (Pointer please) I have a light weight web app that I would like to get going and I think that rails is way overkill and will be a bit slow for this. Some basic pages, but a lot of ajax, and image re-sizing. I would like a threaded env (I think) to deal with this. I’ve seen stuff on camping and merb floating around the list, but where do you get these hosted? Merb seems to have it’s own equivelant to mongrel, and I’m not sure I even know what happens with camping. Where do you host either of these apps? Cheers Daniel ---
**Author:** ![liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-options-with-merb-or-camping/85000/2 "2007-02-09T04:50:47Z")
Daniel N wrote: > I’ve seen stuff on camping and merb floating around the list, but where do > you get these hosted? Merb seems to have it’s own equivelant to mongrel, > and I’m not sure I even know what happens with camping. > > Where do you host either of these apps? We have several customers running Camping applications on our servers. For example, I installed JunebugWiki (built with camping) on one of our hosting servers and am running that behind Nginx rather well. I also believe a few customers are playing with merb, but I don’t anticipate any problems figuring out a way to get those to apps to run. - [http://www.planetargon.com/](http://www.planetargon.com/) Robby ---
**Author:** ![liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-options-with-merb-or-camping/85000/3 "2007-02-09T05:02:48Z")
On 2/9/07, Robby R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:t either of these apps? We have several customers running Camping applications on our servers. > For example, I installed JunebugWiki (built with camping) on one of our > hosting servers and am running that behind Nginx rather well. > > I also believe a few customers are playing with merb, but I don’t > anticipate any problems figuring out a way to get those to apps to run. > > - [http://www.planetargon.com/](http://www.planetargon.com/) Can this run on any of the hosting plans or is it only for higher end plans. Also, I’m having a hard time finding any tutorial style writeups for either of these. Is there anyone who could point me to these if they exist? Thanx ---
**Author:** ![liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-options-with-merb-or-camping/85000/4 "2007-02-09T05:06:48Z")
Daniel N wrote: > > I also believe a few customers are playing with merb, but I don’t > > anticipate any problems figuring out a way to get those to apps to run. > > > > - [http://www.planetargon.com/](http://www.planetargon.com/) > > Can this run on any of the hosting plans or is it only for higher end > plans. All of our levels, you’re constraints are memory, disk space, etc. Not cool ruby frameworks. 😉 > Also, I’m having a hard time finding any tutorial style writeups for either > of these. > > Is there anyone who could point me to these if they exist? The JunebugWiki has an install page, which was helpful and if you stop by our IRC channel when you’re trying to set it up, we can help you work it out. It’s always possible someone in the channel has done it and hasn’t added it to our docs site yet (running on camping, btw). - [http://docs.planetargon.com/](http://docs.planetargon.com/) Cheers, Robby ---
**Author:** ![liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-options-with-merb-or-camping/85000/5 "2007-02-09T07:02:56Z")
Daniel N wrote: > I’ve seen stuff on camping and merb floating around the list, but where do > you get these hosted? Merb seems to have it’s own equivelant to mongrel, > and I’m not sure I even know what happens with camping. I like Nitro when I don’t need one or another feature of the Rails suite and don’t want the overhead. It plays very well with Mongrel, and I expect you can deploy with capistrano without too much trouble. > **[nitroproject.org](http://www.nitroproject.org/)** > > This domain may be for sale! – James B. [http://www.rubyaz.org](http://www.rubyaz.org) - Hacking in the Desert [http://www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys ---
**Author:** ![liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-options-with-merb-or-camping/85000/6 "2007-02-09T07:56:00Z")
On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:28 PM, Daniel N wrote: > threaded env > Cheers > Daniel Daniel- Merb uses Mongrel so any host that allows Mongrel will work with merb. Mongrel need to be at least version 0.3.18 though. You don’t even have to get a gem installed as you can freeze the merb framework into the app and deploy it as one code base. Cheers- – Ezra Z. – Lead Rails Evangelist – removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid – Engine Y., Serious Rails Hosting – (866) 518-YARD (9273) ---
**Author:** ![liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@liquid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-options-with-merb-or-camping/85000/7 "2007-02-09T16:04:45Z")
On 2/8/07, Daniel N [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’ve seen stuff on camping and merb floating around the list, but where do > you get these hosted? Merb seems to have it’s own equivelant to mongrel, > and I’m not sure I even know what happens with camping. > > Where do you host either of these apps? > > Cheers > Daniel Hi Daniel! Deploying camping applications is pretty simple with Evan W.'s "rv"[0](http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2006/12/19/rv-a-tool-for-luxurious-camping). On his blog there are also a bunch of great camping articles. Camping deploys to Mongrel, like a rails or merb application, or you can use FCGI or WEBrick. It’s very flexible. You can ask questions in #camping on [irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net)