Comments on Andrzej on Software: A Guide to Deploying Rails Applications

I'm a newbie to Rails and I have a question that I...

2008-01-20T21:09:00.000+01:00

I'm a newbie to Rails and I have a question that I haven't found a good answer for. Maybe you can help me out.

Is it possible to create a rails app and have it deployed to a specific directory on a web server? For instance, my company has a web site that is powered by a PHP CMS (Drupal), but I see in Rails ways I could create an set of web apps to add to our web site, but I'm not sure if this can be done.

With PHP, the process would be: write the app, upload to a directory, then point visitors to that directory to use the app.

From what I understand of Rails (which I fully admit I could have this all wrong), it seems like one needs to build the site in Rails as its own application. For instance, 37 signals' apps are all separate. Why they're not centrally located under one domain as part of a "suite" is beyond me.

Does that make sense?

miles: I think starting with manual deployment may...

2008-01-05T15:46:00.000+01:00

miles: I think starting with manual deployment may be useful. It gives you better understanding what are the single tasks.

dr_nic: Deprec does look awesome, indeed! I wasn't aware of it. I was going to create little scripts for my deployment tasks but going the deprec way (capistrano recipes) sounds much better. Any idea when Cap2 will be supported?

Deprec is really awesome for helping with lots of ...

2008-01-05T07:23:00.000+01:00

Deprec is really awesome for helping with lots of these tasks, imo (even despite its current lack of cap2 support)q

Thanks, I think this will be helpful. I haven't d...

2008-01-05T03:58:00.000+01:00

Thanks, I think this will be helpful. I haven't done enough deep study of deployment, and have done most of it manually, either following how-tos or by trial and error. This will be a handy reference, especially when combined with the Nginx/Mongrel links at the end!