Deploying a Production app *without* Capistrano...?

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Hi All,

Silly question here, but what is the quickest route for setting up a simple rails app with load balancing *without* Capistrano? My current server "rails.conf" file looks like this:

NameVirtualHost *:80 # Setup the cluster <Proxy balancer://gittest_cluster>   BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8000   BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8001   BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8002 </Proxy>

<VirtualHost *:80>   ServerAdmin mmilano@infinitydatasystems.com   ServerName localhost   ServerAlias localhost   DocumentRoot /home/git/apps/gittest/current/public   <Directory '/home/git/apps/gittest/current/public'>     Options FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride None     Order allow,deny     Allow from all   </Directory>

  ProxyPass / balancer://gittest_cluster/   ProxyPassReverse / balancer://gittest_cluster/

  RewriteEngine On

  RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA]

  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f   RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://gittest_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]

  ErrorLog /home/git/apps/gittest/current/log/apache_error_log   CustomLog /home/git/apps/gittest/current/log/apache_access_log combined </VirtualHost>

...but that's for use with a Cap deploy. I'm honestly rather stumped as to how to get something running *without* Capistrano.

Thanks in advance.

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There is nothing in there that is capistrano specific. All yo need to do is checkout your app info /home/git/apps/gittest/current/ and start a mongrel cluster running on ports 8000-8002. (mongrel_rails cluster::start assuming your mongrel_cluster.yml file is ready to go)

Fred

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That last part "assuming your mongrel_cluster.yml" is ready to go. Will the default cluster file work? And I will be SSHing to the machine to start the process. I'll need a process that is self- sufficient without requiring me to remain logged in. For instance, with a "Development" cluster start, if I close the session out, the mongrel process chokes out too.

Honestly, I'm looking to break rails tradition with "quick-and-dirty"

Thanks again, and in advance.

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There is nothing in there that is capistrano specific. All yo need to do is checkout your app info /home/git/apps/gittest/current/ and
start a mongrel cluster running on ports 8000-8002. (mongrel_rails cluster::start assuming your mongrel_cluster.yml file is ready to go)

Fred

That last part "assuming your mongrel_cluster.yml" is ready to go. Will the default cluster file work? And I will be SSHing to the

Yes. We did it like that for ages before we switched to capistrano.

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Shouldn't be a problem ... before there was Capistrano, there was "old school."