Category Archives: Mongrel

LiteSpeed adds a Rails staging environment

By Alastair | February 4, 2008

Via Dark as Light, the easy way to deploy Rails adds a staging environment.
Here are the LiteSpeed update instructions:
1. Click ‘update’ in the LiteSpeed administration console
2. There is no step 2
3. see #2
Why more people don’t use LiteSpeed is beyond me. Hosting a Rails app takes only a couple more steps with no mongrel_clusters or [...]

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Rails on a Media Temple (dv) server

By Alastair | May 26, 2007

Tom at the wishlisting.com blog has a comprehensive tutorial on setting up Ruby on Rails (with a load balancer and Rmagick) on a Media Temple (dv) server. He deserves praise for installing ImageMagick without a package manager, which can turn into a marathon event of yak-shaving.

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MT GS RoR A-Z: The complete guide to Rails on Media Temple’s Grid Server

By Alastair | February 18, 2007

This tutorial will walk you through setting up everything you need to deploy Rails apps on Media Temple’s Grid Server. The information on each part of the setup is available elsewhere but I thought it would be helpful to have it all in one place. The tutorial will cover setting up a rails container, creating [...]

Also posted in Capistrano, Media Temple, Ruby on Rails, svn | 85 Comments

Media Temple Tames the Beast – New Ruby on Rails Hosting Service with Mongrel

By Alastair | October 12, 2006

For a long time deployment has been the giant stinky Grey elephant in the beautiful Ruby colored room. Rails makes developing an app a joy but for many, including me, deployment has been a bit of a nightmare. If you wanted shared hosting you went with folks who seemingly built their Rails set up by [...]

Also posted in Cool Shise, Ruby on Rails | 18 Comments