Archive for the ‘Ruby’ Category

Thoughts on deploying ruby apps without capistrano

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

I recently left the ruby deployment team forĀ  large managed rails-based hosting provider. We used capistrano for our deployment needs. Once we had successfully configured an application and its dependencies we would hand over a very robust capistrano recipe to the end user and it turns out that almost all ...

What nginx + passenger means to the rails framework

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I work for <insert large managed hosting provider specializing in rails deployment here> and I had the good fortune of getting to play with nginx + passenger before its recent release. This gave me some time to think about how completely it integrates into my deployment stack many weeks before ...