Moving to Production

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi-

I've been happily rolling along creating my Rails apps and am at the point now where I need to keep my Development Environment and create a Production Environment.

To do this, should I simply create the _production Database using mysqladmin? If so, is there a way to have the production DB mirror what I have already done in development (i.e. Migrations for tables, etc)? To have the app then use the _production DB do I then run ruby script/server and use use -e production?

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks!

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Are you deploying this to a server?

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Yes and no. The app will stay where it is on the server however I would like to start letting other people, internal to where I am, start using it, allowing me to continue development in the dev db, etc.

Does that help?

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there is a line in config/environment.rb that you can uncomment to force it into production mode:

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'

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Thanks.

What about the DB stuff? Do I essentially duplicate what I did for the DEV env? Or can I somehow create the tables based on previous migrations?

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run this:

rake RAILS_ENV=production db:migrate

and it will create everything you have done in development

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Amazing, everyday I see stuff like this, I'm just so impressed with this frame work!

Thanks for your help!

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have you heard of capistrano? it is helpful in deploying through subversion.

might be the next thing to tackle.