Stuck with Rails Applications Deployment?

Rails Deployment by Pragmatic Programmers

Well it’s about time that someone is going to put together some information on rails deployment. I personally have had my own stories to tell of hours of uncertainty and issues deploying a rails app to a productions server.

One problem for many new programmers both to programming in general and to rails is that rails doesn’t deploy as easily as using ftp to upload your files to your production server like PHP or HTML. If your really new to development you’ll also be totally confused with subversion a version control system for your applications files and then which web host supporting rails and then how to deploy on their particular system.

Yes it is and can be at time extremely frustrating especially if your a solo developer with limited resources for support other than forums, irc chats etc but even then it’s pretty difficult trying to explain your problems on forums with something so complicated.

Well there is finally a light at the end of the dark dim tunnel of deployment with the gurus from pragmatic programmers soon to release a book on Rails Deployment. I’ve read numerous books on rails and generally deployment is only a small part chapter not really enabling beginners like myself to deploy successfully. Only as of a couple of days ago I finally deployed a basic application over to textdrive after numerous attempts at trying to set up Rails on a dedicated server with MT. Even now I’m still not sure how to continue so I’ll need to do plenty of reading, trial and error, and no doubt mistakes before I finally and comfortable deploying a rails app.

So all I can say to the Pragmatic Programmers is hurry up and bring this book on because I have some money I’m more than willing to swap for the book and I’m sure I won’t be the only one.

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