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May 14, 2007 · by Kevin Runde

So in my last post I talked about getting my web stack setup. I have Apache 2.2 using Mod Proxy Balancer talking to a Mongrel Cluster with MySQL as the database. I copied over one of my test apps and everything is working fine. Now I wanted the ability to deploy to production from any where with an internet connection. Since I do all this on my spare time sometimes I am coding over my lunch hour from a restaurant.

Thus I read up on Capistrano. Okay let me just say Capistrano ROCKS!!! I can’t believe how great of a deploy tool this is.

This was so easy to do. First I read this Shortcut (its on Safari) : Mongrel

I used that shortcut to make sure I had Mongrel setup and running right.

Next I went online and found lots of different ways to setup Capistrano. Then I stumbled across this shortcut (Again it’s also on Safari): Capistrano.

This worked great. This shortcut talks specifically about setting up Capistrano with small steps that help you prove it is working and what would probably be going wrong. I hit a few issues and this shortcut has all the answers. Also Capistrano was originally created when everyone was using FastCGI. This shortcut leads you down the road of using Apache and Mongrel which is what I am using so again this was perfect.

So I took my test app I have been making and with in a day I read the Capistrano Shortcut and got my app deploying. The next day I went to a local restaurant and pushed out an update over my lunch hour! AWESOME!

So I have started working on the another app at home. Part of the reason for the delay in my posts. Well Over my lunch hour I took that app, applied all the Capistrano Configs, Setup the Production Environment and Databases, and finally deployed the application all in my lunch hour. I have NEVER setup a production environment that fast before.

RAILS ROCKS!!

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