Rails intranet - in house server

Rails Deployment
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I’m deploying a rails intranet and have never setup an in house rails
server. I have only used mediatemple.

Does anyone have any tips? The application is very small. It has a
maximum of 6 users at a time and it is not doing any large processes.

What type of server should I use? (they are all mac users)
What are the minimum requirements the server should have…etc?

Does anyone know of any good resources?

Thanks

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Well, I can’t be as specific as you’d like but I’ve done something very
similar. First I used a reliable Dell server PC. Mine have lots of ram
but
I think a nice modest server should have about 2gigs of RAM. I’ve used
Centos 4.5 and Centos 5 on different servers along with nginx, mongrel,
monit and mysql5 with great results.

I highly recommend Ezra new book “Deploying Rails Applications”. It’s
still
only in beta pdf but I found it to be very helpful.

Raul

----- Original Message -----
From: “David M.” [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 7:45 AM
Subject: [Rails-deploy] rails intranet - in house server

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We run several small Rails apps and do this with mysql4, mongrel
(mongrel_cluster) and nginx at the moment. Every application is given
2 mongrel workers joined in the cluster, and nginx routes all requests
to these clusters. Works nicely.

Aleksey

On Oct 12, 5:45 pm, David M. <ruby-forum-incom…@andreas-

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David M. wrote:

I’m deploying a rails intranet and have never setup an in house rails
server. I have only used mediatemple.

Does anyone have any tips? The application is very small. It has a
maximum of 6 users at a time and it is not doing any large processes.

What type of server should I use? (they are all mac users)
What are the minimum requirements the server should have…etc?

Does anyone know of any good resources?

Thanks

I have Rails running behind Mongrel and Apache2 on both Xserve and
standard OS X. Both are older machines with 2GB of RAM. The Xserve is 2
GHz G5, the other box is 1.6 GHz G5. My development box is a Dual Core
Mac Mini with 4GB RAM.

Performance on all boxes is fine for internal use, and have had zero
unexpected downtime. My setup was based on Hivelogic instructions, and
Mongrel website. Startup processes (very important) use launchd.

Changes are deployed with rsync over SSH. Also use SSH to access boxes
remotely for maintenance and troubleshooting.

My main server is a Solaris 4 CPU Sunfire with 16GB RAM.