Web On Rails

Yesterday, I attended third barcamp in delhi. I presented a session “Deploying rails application in EC2″. It was an amazing experience. We talked about EC2 and I had given a demo “How to deploy rails application on EC2″.
I personally didn’t like some sessions. There were people from some company and after every 2 mins […]

Hours ago, I posted about, “How to deploy rails application with pound as a Balancer”.
Lets run rails application on https with pound. For that your machine should have:
* Pound installed with ssl support
* Pound and mongrels running
Now, First of all we need a ssl certificate, that can be generate by issuing “openssl req -x509 -newkey […]

Now a days Apache + mod_proxy + mongrel_clusters, Lighttpd + Mongrel cluster and Nginx + mongrel cluster are well known for deploying rails applications.
You can also deploy your rails application with pound(a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server).
First you need to setup mongrel_clusters for your rails application by issuing […]

So you want to setup production server with mongrel clusters and apache proxy balancer, also wants to use capistrano for deployment, huh. Take it easy, its very simple.
You need Apache 2.2 or later on your production server, and the following ruby gems on your both machine(server and local):

capistrano
mongrel
mongrel_cluster

I haven’t mentioned rails and rake gem as […]