Ruby on Rails

Fernando Perez wrote:
>> I'm just worried I'm going to waste money on an outdated book :)
>>
>> Thanks again for your time.
>> Jeremy
>
> The book is overbloat. The author suggests to run your rails setup in a
> Xen virtual machine! Well he sells rails hosting...
>
> Capistrano is not necessary when you know how to use a good scm such as
> mercurial. A simple bash script + mercurial does everything capistrano
> can do, and it won't crash on you.

Cap is what most people use, and I've never had it crash. I don't think
it's appropriate for the SCM to handle all the deployment -- I think a
tool like Capistrano is a necessity.

>
> Basically you need:
>
> - Server
> - Domain name
> - Install Ruby. I would recommend to stick to 1.8.7, as I'm having
> painful issues with 1.9.1 and other people too.
> - Install Passenger, and Nginx
> - Install a database backend
> - Get your code on the server. That's where I use my bash+mercurial
> script.
>
> And you should be good to go. Depending on your skills this can take
> more or less time. Once you know how to do it once, it's easy.

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