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Rails Application Servers
Ruby on Rails applications require a run-time environment to execute the code that services the incoming and outgoing requests and responses. Application servers can take the form of plugins for general purpose web servers such as Apache or standalone, dedicated servers such as Mongrel.Using SSL in Rails Applications
If your web application manages any private information, you should be using SSL (https://) for pages where that information is entered or displayed. Fortunately, implementing SSL isn't too hard, once you know what you need to do. continue...
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Putting the pane back into deployment
Describes how to use a preferences pane for controlling Passenger on OS X
- Setting up Rails from source for CentOS
- Scale rails from one box to three, four and five
- Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You
- combining rails and php
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Documentation (3)
- Mongrel
Mongrel Home Page - Thin - yet another web server
Home site of the Thin Rails application server. A extremely fast, lightweight replacement for mongrel. - Phusion Passenger User's Guide
Official documentation for Passenger. Also included in the Gem files.
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- Rails Deployment
Group for discussion of Rails application deployment.
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- Capistrano Concepts
- Passenger in Development
How to use Passenger to host multiple applications on your development box. - Phusion Passenger
In-depth screencast on using Passenger.
Software (9)
- BlogFish: Webistrano - Capistrano deployment the easy way
A web-based interface to Capistrano. Open source. - RubyWorks Production Stack
Open-source production server stack for Ruby on Rails applications, assembled by ThoughtWorks. - Webistrano - Capistrano deployment the easy way
Web-based control panel for deploying Rails applications. - ruby-style
Supervisor for Rails apps, updates TCP sockets to new code versions and restarts dead processes. - Synaphy * Seesaw - High-Availability Mongrel Packs
- Overview -- Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails)
mod_rails is an Apache module that supports Rails applications without requiring a separate application server. This could be the biggest thing in Rails hosting since Mongrel. - Phusion Passenger
Main site for Phusion's Passenger Apache module, also known as mod_rails, which allows Ruby on Rails applications to be hosted without a separate application server. - Passenger Source Code
Full source for the open-source Passenger Apache module. - Mac OS X Prefs Pane for Controlling Passenger Rails Setup
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- Rails Hosting Info - Find Ruby on Rails hosting!
Directory of Rails hosting companies, sortable in various ways and with user reviews and ratings.
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The Road to Enlightened Management
Blog from the developers of FiveRuns hosted system management application.
