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• What everyone says: Rails deployment sucks

• Everyone is wrong

• Use Capistrano

• Use Mongrel (cluster) with something in front

• Read Coda’s article, read any of the short PDFs out.

• Also see: Mongrel PDF by Zed.

• VPS options: Rimuhosting options and Slicehost

• Capistrano quick demo here

• Rimuhosting works right now, quickly with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 and Deprec

• I got a deployment up and running in under two hours, from zero to full fledged production deployment, using this combination.

• Deprec takes care of: installing Apache 2.2.3, mongrel, mongrel_rails, capistrano, ruby 1.8.4, rails, pushing you SSH public key out, setting up your apache config files, and probably other stuff I’m forgetting

• “It just works”

• the primary thing you need setup before hand SSH knowledge, and you will want key based auth with something like keychain to manage your keys.

• SSH will probably be the hardest thing if you are new to it

• $30/month to show your Rails app to world, plus a full fledge linux box with root access to play around with. What are you waiting for?