Chapter 12: Deployment and Production Use
When Rails applications start to fledge, as their guardian you have to take extra care to make sure they can fly. Admittedly, though, the term “roll” would be more appropriate in the Rails context!
In this final chapter, we'll review the variety of components involved in the process of deploying a Rails application to a production system. Following that, we'll look at fine-tuning an application's deployment so that it's able to cope with a moderate amount of traffic.
The Implications of “Production”
Back in Chapter 4, we discussed the different environments Rails provides for each stage of an application's life cycle. Yet we barely scratched the surface of what it means to flip the switch between the ...
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