Comments on: Ruby on Rails – WOW!

By: Joe Ocampo

Joe Ocampo — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:01:21 +0000

Lets create a that site that Joey and I were talking about for displaced softies that need $$$ for MacBook Pro’s! If someone can raise money for their college tuition why can’t we raise a little for us poor developers. ;-)

By: Sean Chambers

Sean Chambers — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:45:31 +0000

Jason,

sounds like a plan! Let me know if you setup a vm or anything to play with it.

It would be neat if we could swap virtual machine disks if one of us sets up a Linux deployment server. Granted we would all have to be using VirtualBox or VMWare, but it would be cool to all be working with the same configuration.

By: Joey Beninghove

Joey Beninghove — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:09:49 +0000

@Jason,
Capistrano is pretty much the de-facto deployment tool in Rails-land right now, from what I can see. So I’d probably take a serious look at that before creating an alternative. Just my 0.02…

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:43:34 +0000

Wow. This is exactly why we created LosTechies. Thanks for the support guys.

@Sean: Sounds like a challenge for us to create an open-source product to make production deployment easier. :)

By: Joey Beninghove

Joey Beninghove — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:21:59 +0000

@Sean,
Well since I’m only going on my 2nd real coding week with learning RoR, I can’t be of much help. But from what I’ve seen I am going to have to beef up my *nix skills quite a bit. But sounds like you and Jason are pretty comfortable in a *nix environment, so shouldn’t be as much of a problem for you guys.

About Capistrano, everything I hear about it, folks say it is simply amazing and is something every RoR developer should be using. Hopefully I’ll get to that point soon… :D

By: Sean Chambers

Sean Chambers — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:15:10 +0000

Great isn’t it?

Now, my only gripe with all of RoR is the whole production headaches. Perhaps someone can shed some light in this area of deploying a RoR app to a production server.

There are alot of different options and it’s hard to tell which is the best route. Alot of people have capistrano scripts deploying to Apache with a Mongrel cluster and a load balancer but I had a real hard time getting it to work correctly. Comments anyone?

By: Joe Ocampo

Joe Ocampo — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:56:50 +0000

I knew once you saw the light you wouldn’t be able to resist! lol

By: Joey Beninghove

Joey Beninghove — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:21:49 +0000

Hehe, yep. There are lots of screencasts and presentations out there you can watch. Here are few more to wet your appetite:

2006 RailsConf: http://www.scribemedia.org/?s=railsconf

2006 RailsConf Europe: http://skillsmatter.com/menu/368

Google Videos: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22ruby+on+rails%22

Skills Matter / RoR eXchange: http://skillsmatter.com/menu/479

RailsCasts: http://railscasts.com/

PeepCode ($$) : http://peepcode.com/

There are many more, but those should get you started… :)