Rails Deployment

Here are a few articles which I have happened across lately which might interest some…

• Kevin Clark’s Really Simple Git Deployment with Vlad
• Robby Russell of Planet Aragon has created a plugin to further simplify deployment to their Rails-optimised Boxcar VPS environments.
• mod_rails for Apache was released – although it is called Passenger just to keep you on your toes
• Ben Hughes has already documented how to get Passenger working with Ubuntu 7.10 on Slicehost

Mark Watson has a write-up over on DevX of his preferred Rails development setup – including an explanation of how he deploys his application from Netbeans on his Macbook to a Linux server running ngnix, memcached and mongrel [since Zed Shaw "went nuclear" in January the mongrel site has gone 404]

Yes, I’m still alive. What’s more, Capistrano 2.1 is out. Apparently there are some issue using it with Mongrel but the RubyRobot has kindly documented what needs changed.

Ernest Micklei at Self Halt tells you how to use Capistrano to deploy Adobe Flex applications

Richard Crowley has some useful advice regarding how to develop and deploy on the same box with Capistrano.

Giovanni Intini has posted a Capistrano 2 recipe for deploying to Site5. There’s another in variation in the comments to his article.

Pat Nakajima over at DevThatWeb has put together a new plugin called Capistrano Bells. It is a set of Capistrano recipes which does many of the things that the deprec gem does (Pat created a new plugin since deprec doesn’t yet work with Capistrano 2.0).

Graeme Mathieson over at Notes from a Messy Desk has written up a good summary of Jamis Buck’s tutorial on Harnessing Capistrano. It’s late so I can’t digest it all just now but it looks like it is worth a read (and don’t forget to read the comments to his article for a few extra tips from the folks at 37Signals )

Dan Glegg over at Angry Amoeba has created a plugin called ReleaseNotifier. This collects the relevant commit messages for the code you are currently deploying and e-mails a summary to whoever you think might be interested. It sounds like a good way to document what changes actually went into the deployed application.

Saimon Moore – the author of Capistrano Server Extensions – has written a good overview of their usage. Take a read and – while you are at it – check out the list of commands it supports.