Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide (Facets of Ruby)

280 pages. 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 deploy them w ith one step, every time. Deploying Rails Applications will take you from a simp le shared host through a highly scalable clustered and balanced setup with Nginx . See how to tell whether you've bought enough firepower, and learn how to opti mize your Rails projects applications in a systemic, rational way. Take advantag e of advanced caching techniques, and become and expert with the latest servers in Nginx and Mongrel. Don't worry. You'll get a dose of Apache too. Not only wi ll you learn how to configure your production environment, you'll also see how t o monitor it with free, automated tools that can restart your servers when the m emory use gets too high for comfort. You'll see how to take a performance baseli ne, profile for bottlenecks, and solve the most common performance problems you' re likely to see. You'll learn: Everything from source control and migrations to Capistrano, rake tasks and beyond. Directly from authors who run EngineYard, one of the best Rails hosts in the business. How to deploy your applications t o multiple production servers with a single command using Capistrano. How to se tup a Rails/Nginx/Mongrel cluster for applications with high scalabilty needs. .and more.