# Stuck on deployment

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stuck-on-deployment/165950>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 20, 2009, 9:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stuck-on-deployment/165950 "2009-04-20T09:36:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![adsouzp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@adsouzp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adsouzp)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stuck-on-deployment/165950/1 "2009-04-20T09:36:22Z")

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I’ve trying day and night for the past month to deploy a rails app and  
I just can’t get it. I followed every guide on the web. Using Git, SVN,  
Capistrano, Passenger, ect.

The guide that has brought me the closest is:

[http://railstips.org/2008/11/24/gitn-your-shared-host-on](http://railstips.org/2008/11/24/gitn-your-shared-host-on)

and

[http://railstips.org/2008/12/14/deploying-rails-on-dreamhost-with-passenger](http://railstips.org/2008/12/14/deploying-rails-on-dreamhost-with-passenger)

At the very last step when I cap deploy I start getting all sorts of  
errors like “Can’t find Rake file” and some directory errors.

Can someone link me a “idiot proof guide” on how to deploy? I’m on  
ubuntu 8.10 and am hosting on Dreamhost.

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**Author:** ![adsouzp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@adsouzp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adsouzp)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stuck-on-deployment/165950/2 "2009-04-26T18:20:37Z")

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Aaron D. wrote:

> I’ve trying day and night for the past month to deploy a rails app and  
> I just can’t get it. I followed every guide on the web. Using Git, SVN,  
> Capistrano, Passenger, ect.
> 
> The guide that has brought me the closest is:
> 
> [Git'n Your Shared Host On // RailsTips by John Nunemaker](http://railstips.org/2008/11/24/gitn-your-shared-host-on)
> 
> and
> 
> [Deploying Rails on Dreamhost with Passenger // RailsTips by John Nunemaker](http://railstips.org/2008/12/14/deploying-rails-on-dreamhost-with-passenger)
> 
> At the very last step when I cap deploy I start getting all sorts of  
> errors like “Can’t find Rake file” and some directory errors.
> 
> Can someone link me a “idiot proof guide” on how to deploy? I’m on  
> ubuntu 8.10 and am hosting on Dreamhost.

In the beginning, you can try without Capistrano. Capistrano is for  
automating deployments but if you’re not familiar with the deployment  
itself then it’s best you get familiar with it first, before writing any  
kinds of automation.

Have you already tried uploading your Rails application to the web  
server, and setting up an Apache virtual host as is described in the  
Phusion Passenger manual? That should be as easy as it possibly can be.

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**Author:** ![adsouzp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@adsouzp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adsouzp)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stuck-on-deployment/165950/3 "2009-04-28T20:19:05Z")

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I have figured it out, it was a mispell error in the code after I had a  
tech at [dreamhost.com](http://dreamhost.com) look at it. Thanks for replying though.