# When will Rails deployment be as easy as PHP

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/when-will-rails-deployment-be-as-easy-as-php/131330>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 8, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/when-will-rails-deployment-be-as-easy-as-php/131330 "2008-03-08T06:07:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ebca7d/32.png) [@rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahil)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/when-will-rails-deployment-be-as-easy-as-php/131330/1 "2008-03-08T06:07:29Z")

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Hello,

We are a group of new students on this Forum.

We are Learning R. and Rails as well.

The first thing that scared us was Rails Deployment.

Can any one answer us, when will rails deployment be as easy as PHP on  
Apache.

We can afford to buy only shared hosting space and do not want to go for  
strange deployment procedures.

Few senior developers are forcing us to go with some rails deployment  
tools, but we do not want to go that way, and would like to go with  
standard deployment procedures

We have 2 small projects on [www.heroku.com](http://www.heroku.com) and are happy with it. But  
now we nned to go for shared hosting.

Can few friends here guide us in the right direction.

Rahil and Friends

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**Author:** ![rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ebca7d/32.png) [@rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahil)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/when-will-rails-deployment-be-as-easy-as-php/131330/2 "2008-03-08T14:22:15Z")

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Doubtful that Rails deployment will become “as easy as php” overnight.  
However, it really doesn’t have to be so painful. Rails deployment is  
actually not too bad but granted it could be easier. You may want to  
check out “switchpipe”:

[http://switchpipe.org/](http://switchpipe.org/)

That should help make rails deployment easier. Also there are several  
shared hosting providers that offer rails support although admittedly  
shared hosting for rails is not exactly going to be a viable long term  
solution.