Hi, I'm not sure if I'm just not googling the right things, but I
can't find a post about a production environment any later than early
2007.
Things seem to change so fast in the rails world, what with mod_rails
out now, and people trying all kinds of crazy stuff. What do people
use in the real world? I'm looking for something that can scale very
easily... I want to know "the right way" to do it. I realize that is
a loaded question, but I mean I'm not interested in methods only
appropriate for light loads. (my app will be a medium load).
If it won't mess me up, I'd like to use apache. I'm familiar with it
already, and it would be nice to have some php stuff running in
parallel.
Thanks... links are fine, as are the correct terms to google
many local servers (for development) on individual's computers
one staging server
one production server
Changes are done on the dev machines, specs are run, changes are (usually) checked, and then uploaded to staging. Staging is then updated with the latest version, tests are run again and then when that all passes we do cap deploy to production.
Thanks Ryan, is mod_rails working out well for you? It’s definitely easy to set up, but when I first tried it (on my local computer), there was a 1 second latency for requests… almost like it was using CGI or something.
Are there any tricks to a mod_rails deployment, or is just upload and go?
This site lists the different production environments in the order they became popular (hopefully for good reasons). Looks like I’m going to try mod_rails. Thanks!
