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copied!<p>Here's my way of deploying Rails:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Installing Ruby</strong></li> </ul> <p>I would not use RVM because it's very tricky to get it running properly in combination with stuff like cron jobs. Doable (with wrappers for example), but a bit of a hassle. If you don't need other Ruby versions on that machine, just install it from source yourself.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Gems</strong></li> </ul> <p>Just let Bundler work its magic. Remember to install with the flags <code>--without test development --deployment</code>. I wouldn't do that up front though. Just make sure you have bundler.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Web server</strong></li> </ul> <p>Using Passenger (with either Apache or Nginx) is a fine and easy choice. When you install Apache from apt, it will run in a special user.</p> <p>Apache is configured correctly automatically on Ubuntu. It will start on reboot.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Website configuration</strong></li> </ul> <p>All configuration be in /etc/apache2. Place your virtual host configuration in /etc/apache2/sites-available and use <code>a2ensite</code> to enable it.</p> <p>Put your app in <code>/var/www</code>, since that is the default location in Ubuntu. I usually make a deploy user.</p> <p>Make sure that user can access your application by assigning your app to the <code>www-data</code> group.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Database</strong></li> </ul> <p>MySQL has its own user system. Log in as root user and create a new user with SQL: <code>GRANT ALL ON 'application_production'.* TO 'deploy' IDENTIFIED BY 'some password';</code></p> <ul> <li><strong>Assets</strong></li> </ul> <p>Assets should be generated as the user owning the application. You should add any css and javascript files to production.rb. For example:</p> <pre><code>config.assets.precompile += %w(backend.css) </code></pre> <ul> <li><strong>Conclusion</strong></li> </ul> <p>It helps to use a deploy tool like <a href="http://capify.org">Capistrano</a>. When you run <code>capify</code>, uncomment the appropriate line in the <code>Capfile</code> to get assets compilation. Here's mine:</p> <pre><code>ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'production' load 'deploy' if respond_to?(:namespace) # cap2 differentiator load 'deploy/assets' load 'config/deploy' require 'capistrano/ext/multistage' require "bundler/capistrano" require 'capistrano_colors' </code></pre> <p>This is just how I normally install my rails apps. I hope this will get you going. Recently I've written a gem for integrating <a href="http://www.opscode.com/chef/">Chef</a>-solo with Capistrano, called <a href="https://github.com/iain/capistrano_chef_solo">capistrano-chef-solo</a>. It's very alpha and might be a bit too complicated if you're just starting with deployment, but it might help you. </p>

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