First you'll learn how to build out your shared, virtual, or dedicated host. Then, you'll see how to build your applications for production and ... read full description
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Feb 12, 2010
Tom
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Overall, this book had a lot of very good information, and it was very helpful to me as I deployed my first Ruby-On-Rails application into a "Production" environment.
Here's the high points:
* Lots of good information on tools such as Capistrano, MySQL, Mongrel, Apache, and nginx.
* The authors clearly know what they are talking about.
* It's helpful if you're deploying a "toy" application (like I am) *and* if you're deploying a large, cluste More...
Here's the high points:
* Lots of good information on tools such as Capistrano, MySQL, Mongrel, Apache, and nginx.
* The authors clearly know what they are talking about.
* It's helpful if you're deploying a "toy" application (like I am) *and* if you're deploying a large, cluste More...
Jun 02, 2008
Ben
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This was a surprisingly quick read and gave a good overview of how you'd go about deploying and scaling a Rails app. Ezra Zygmuntowicz, the main author, has probably deployed more Rails apps than anyone else. The first half of the book is slow and the second half will be mostly familiar if you've deployed Rails with root access before. Overall I'm a little disappointed the authors didn't go into more detail, especially on options beyond just Monit for monitoring the health of your processes and
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Aug 27, 2008
François
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I was at first excited about the book, but when I finally got my hands on it, I found the book to be outdated. I helped write parts of the book (the migrations and Subversion chapters), and they should have been rewritten. I understand the book took a very long time to write and produce, which is why it was outdated when it got on my shelf.
Apr 03, 2010
Sean
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Deployment was not that fun before Passenger from Phusion came along. There is still pain if you're trying to use Rails/Phusion/Oracle but at least there is less Apache twiddling now.
Sep 11, 2008
Webdevotion
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You will not only learn a lot about deploying ... Rails apps. You'll also discover a lot ( yes, a lot ) of best practices.
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