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This chapter covers
� Deploying a Rails app to an Ubuntu server
� Using RVM and Ruby in a server environment
� Hosting a Rails app using the Passenger gem
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Deployment
In this chapter you’ll deploy your Ticketee application to a new Ubuntu install.
Ubuntu is the preferred operating system for deploying Rails applications, mainly
due to its simplicity of use and easy package management. You don’t need to install
another operating system on your computer; you’ll be using a product called Oracle
VM VirtualBox.
You’ll set up this machine manually so that you can see how all the pieces fit
together. There are automatic tools such Puppet, 1 Chef, 2 Babushka, 3 and Git
Pusshuten 4 that can do most, if not all, of this setup for you. To cover them all adequately
in this chapter would turn the chapter into a book. Deployment is an enormous
subject and different people have very different opinions of how it should be
1 http://puppetlabs.com.
2 http://opscode.com/chef/.
3 http://babushka.me.
4 http://gitpusshuten.com/.