Some Help When Deploying Rails

Filed in archive Application Development on January 11, 2006

This is a follow-up to my recent article Ruby On Rails Nightmare where I explained the problems I was having deploying a Ruby on Rails based application. James Davidson linked to one of my sites and he has what I think is a really good solution to deploying a Rails application on Apache. He has written an Essay titled Deploying Rails with Apache 2. The nutshell version is to use ProxyPass in Apache, if you need to use it, and connect to an instance of LightTPD that runs Rails on the back end. I'm not in love with this solution but it is a solution. This is what I'm going to try and do going forward.

Also, someone was nice enough to comment on my previous article as well. They suggest referencing Rolling with Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X Tiger (for beginners) to get things deployed with Rails. I'm not a Mac user but there is some good information in the article. Check it out.