# First Rails APP launch - help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-rails-app-launch-help/108892>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 9, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-rails-app-launch-help/108892 "2007-07-09T03:51:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![bxsitecover](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@bxsitecover](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bxsitecover)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-rails-app-launch-help/108892/1 "2007-07-09T03:51:09Z")

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Okay I have read a lot of different article’s on capistrano, mongrel,  
and Subversion(SCM). etc… First off, which of these (if not all)  
have to be installed on my remote host? Also do you have to use a  
SCM? I am connecting through SSH with my remote host.

Thanks for reading!

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**Author:** ![bxsitecover](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@bxsitecover](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bxsitecover)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-rails-app-launch-help/108892/2 "2007-07-09T05:31:14Z")

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"bxsitecover wrote:

> Okay I have read a lot of different article’s on capistrano, mongrel,  
> and Subversion(SCM). etc… First off, which of these (if not all)  
> have to be installed on my remote host? Also do you have to use a  
> SCM? I am connecting through SSH with my remote host.

You can just FTP (or SFTP) your Rails app to your hosted domain. The  
other  
stuff is optional. Great, but optional.

hth,  
Bill

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**Author:** ![bxsitecover](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@bxsitecover](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bxsitecover)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 9:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-rails-app-launch-help/108892/3 "2007-07-09T09:02:26Z")

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Congrats on your first app,

Basically  
-Capistrano makes deployment a more automated process  
-Mongrel is a ruby based web server, which is very fast at processing  
your rails app, although its not required it would be recommended,  
especially if you need to process a lot of requests  
-Subversion, although is normally is required for capistranio, its  
very important to use even if your not deploying with capistranio.

Also is your remote host a VPS or Shared host?