First you'll learn how to build out your shared, virtual, or dedicated host. Then, you'll see how to build your applications for production and deploy them with one step, every time. Deploying Rails Applications will take you from a simple shared host through a highly scalable clustered and balanced setup with Nginx.

See how to tell whether you've bought enough firepower, and learn how to optimize your Rails projects applications in a systemic, rational way. Take advantage of advanced caching techniques, and become and expert with the latest servers in Nginx and Mongrel. Don't worry. You'll get a dose of Apache too.

Not only will you learn how to configure your production environment, you'll also see how to monitor it with free, automated tools that can restart your servers when the memory use gets too high for comfort. You'll see how to take a performance baseline, profile for bottlenecks, and solve the most common performance problems you're likely to see.

You'll learn:

Everything from source control and migrations to Capistrano, rake tasks and beyond.

Directly from authors who run EngineYard, one of the best Rails hosts in the business.

How to deploy your applications to multiple production servers with a single command using Capistrano.

How to setup a Rails/Nginx/Mongrel cluster for applications with high scalabilty needs.

...and more

Intended for experienced developers, this guide offers tips for developing Rails applications with painless deployment in mind, choosing between shared hosts or virtual private servers, structuring the software stack for high performance, and building web servers and services. The authors select Capistrano as their Rails deployment tool, Apache as their web server, and nginx as the front-end server for Mongrel clusters. Distributed by O'Reilly Media. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The author consolidates all the hard-to-find options and advice needed to deploy Rails applications in the best possible way. Readers will not only learn the how of configuring the production environment, they will also learn the theory behind it so they can adapt and keep up with new methodologies as Rails technologies rapidly advance. This book provides the necessary foundation for fine art printing: The understanding of color management, profiling, paper and inks. It demonstrates how to set up the printing workflow as it guides the reader step-by-step through this process from an image file to an outstanding fine art print.

The author consolidates all the hard-to-find options and advice needed to deploy Rails applications in the best possible way. Readers will not only learn the how of configuring the production environment, they will also learn the theory behind it so they can adapt and keep up with new methodologies as Rails technologies rapidly advance.