CHAPTER 13

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Deploying Your Rails Applications

If you’re ready to turn the world on its head by unleashing your million-dollar web application to the public, then let this chapter be your starting point.

The various web-application development platforms in use today have very different deployment methods. If you’re using PHP, deployment is usually as simple as dropping the right files into a directory on the remote server (usually via FTP) and then visiting them with your web browser. For PHP applications, there are thousands of hosts, and deployment is simple enough for your parents to accomplish. However, as you all know, with simplicity comes ...

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