Enrique

SliceHost + Deprec Plug-in

Posted by Enrique Delgado Tue, 01 May 2007 15:00:00 GMT

I’ve recently purchased a slice at SliceHost and started to use the Deprec plug-in for Rails for my apps.

Thanks to the awesome Top Funky free peepcode screencast I was able to start deploying applications (including the entire Rails stack) quickly and in a predictable manner.

Check out the screencast for details, but this is my basic recipe to setup a new application. These steps will create a sample rails application, setup apache, mongrel, and deploy (with migrations!):

1. rails mykillerapp
2. deprec --apply-to .
3. Edit your config/deploy.rb file.
4. cap deprec_setup
5. cap setup_scm
6. cap deploy_with migrations
7. cap restart_apache

And you are done! Subsequent releases are even easier:

1. cap deploy_with_migrations

Pretty good eh?