February 19th, 2007
Deployment Recipes
My wife is an excellent cook. I can get by if the recipe is detailed enough (how much is a pinch??). Mike Bailey has given us a great deployment and server setup tool in deprec, but it seems that folks still have some problems getting up and running with it. In my opinion the utlimate usefuleness and time savings of deprec and capistrano is worth the initial cost of actually learning how to use it.
Here is a short walk through that hopefully will help highlight the startup process, and also help us keep track of some of the common issues/pitfalls.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Zach Holman
That’s just fantastic. I mean, it’s a couple days late for me, but it’s still good to see it get consolidated into one page. When I was trying to wrap my head around it I had to run around 4-5 different installation pages, which is harder to figure out and stay on top of what you need. Definitely will help me out in the future if I need to set up another slice.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:00 PM Don
I actually had a fellow developer time me, I could go from a blank slice to a deployed rails app out of subversion in 30 minutes… Subsequent new Rails apps on that slice take a whopping 15. Yikes!
Deprec is HOT!