Everyone is talking about developing in Ruby on Rails. And while developing applications using Rails is pure joy, knowing how to deploy a Rails application in a real, live, production environment has so far been a lot harder.
Until now, the information you need has been highly fragmented and sometimes contradictory. But this book will change all of that: by consolidating all the hard-to-find options and advice you need, you can now deploy your applications in the best possible way. You'll learn all about the full range of options for production Rails deployment, from security to scalability and more, using apache, lighthttpd, Mongrel, and even Microsoft Windows.
This book will help you sleep better at night, knowing that your application can handle anything that gets thrown at it. Come away with the knowledge of how to optimize your Rails projects for speed and concurrency. You'll take advantage of advanced caching techniques and become an expert in lighttpd and Apache server environments.
No longer will it be trial and error when it comes time to go live with your gem of an application. You'll not only learn the how of configuring your production environment, you will also learn the theory behind it so you can adapt and keep up with new methodologies as Rails technologies rapidly advance.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 8
The Lay of the Land......Page 11
Finding a Home......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Refining Applications for Production......Page 20
The Lay of the Land......Page 21
Source Code Management......Page 22
Subversion Tips......Page 29
Stabilizing Your Applications......Page 31
Active Record Migrations......Page 34
Application Issues for Deployment......Page 38
The Lay of the Land......Page 44
Choosing a Shared Host......Page 46
Setting Up Your Domain and DNS......Page 49
Configuring Your Server......Page 51
Server Setup: Create a Database......Page 52
Installing Your Application......Page 53
Configuring Your Web Server......Page 56
Application Setup: Rails Config Files......Page 60
The Well-Behaved Application......Page 63
Troubleshooting Checklist......Page 64
Conclusion......Page 71
The Lay of the Land......Page 72
Virtual Private Servers......Page 75
Dedicated Servers......Page 77
Setting Up Shop......Page 78
Conclusion......Page 90
Capistrano......Page 92
The Lay of the Land......Page 93
How It Works......Page 95
Local and Remote Setup for Rails......Page 97
Standard Recipes......Page 107
Writing Tasks......Page 108
A Little Extra Flavor......Page 118
Troubleshooting......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 123
Training Your Mongrels......Page 124
Configuring the Watchdog......Page 131
Keeping FastCGI Under Control......Page 136
Building in Error Notification......Page 138
Heartbeat......Page 142
Conclusion......Page 143
The Lay of the Land......Page 144
Scaling Out with Clustering......Page 145
Mirror Images......Page 150
Domain Names and Hosts......Page 151
Deploying to Multiple Hosts......Page 154
Apache......Page 159
nginx, from Russia with Love......Page 172
Clustering MySQL......Page 179
Summary......Page 191
Setting Up the Server......Page 192
Mongrel......Page 196
Mongrel and Pen......Page 201
Using Apache 2.2 and Mongrel......Page 204
IIS Integration......Page 209
Reverse Proxy and URLs......Page 211
Strategies for Hosting Multiple Applications......Page 213
Load-Testing Your Applications......Page 218
Final Thoughts......Page 219
Developing on Windows and Deploying Somewhere Else......Page 220
Wrapping Up......Page 223
The Lay of the Land......Page 224
Initial Benchmarks: How Many Mongrels?......Page 228
Profiling and Bottlenecks......Page 232
Common Bottlenecks......Page 237
Caching......Page 242
Conclusion......Page 252
Rubinius......Page 254
IronRuby......Page 256
Wrapping Up......Page 257
An Example nginx Configuration......Page 258
Bibliography......Page 260
C......Page 261
D......Page 262
M......Page 263
P......Page 264
S......Page 265
U......Page 266
Z......Page 267
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