Rails, Capistrano, Mongrel and Apache (with SSL) on Gentoo
There is a happy occasion in the development of an application — deployment. Users will use it, you will receive (hopefully) some money, there will be some bugs.. well, maybe not so happy occasion.. ;>
In most situations you will have to repeat a deployment process several times (bug fixes, new features, etc.). Maybe the process is not very complicated, but an automation will minimise possible mistakes such as typos or omitted commands.
Fortunately, there is a nice tool for Ruby on Rails applications — Capistrano.
Now we know about a tool to automate the deployment of an application, but we need to deploy our application to a production environment — I decided for the combination of Mongrel and Apache.
…and everything runs on Gentoo :)
Let’s start — here is my short howto:
(There is more where this came from … )
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