Deploy Rails 3 app to staging and production

Marc-Antoine Ross May 21st, 2011

I’ve spent a few days figuring out the proper configuration needed to deploy a rails app to both staging and production servers. It was time consuming as I don’t have a lot of experience with rails deployment. Like most rails developers I know, we mostly code and type heroku deploy. Some magic happens and we hit F5.

3 links that will help you deploy to staging and production

• Rails 3 Hosting with RVM, Passenger, Capistrano, Git and Apache
• HOWTO setup multistage deployment with Capistrano
• Multi-staging environment for Rails using Capistrano and mod_rails

The most important part of the 3 link for me was to change apache’s configuration for staging and add “RailsEnv Staging” in the virtualhost directive.
Voilà, you should now have cap staging deploy and cap production deploy ready to fire away!

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