Right now my main priority is getting an alpha version of Domain Pigeon launched. It turns out deploying it isn’t as easy as uploading a few files like it was with PHP.
The last three days can neatly be summed up by this post’s title and for a bit of elaboration I…
– Learned how to use Github to host a repository
– Finally had a need to learn and use SSH
– Re-learned how to use Git, as I haven’t been using it nearly as much as I should have
– Learned how to use Capistrano to deploy a Rails application and how to deal with a mess load of error messages that pop up when you do things incorrectly…
Here are some good resources for anyone else looking for information on these topics:
Capistrano’s Getting Started Article
Deploying Rails on Dreamhost with Passenger (there are several Dreamhost/Passenger/Capistrano articles out there but this was the best and most recent)
Github’s Deploying with Capistrano
Philly.rb Google Group (thanks guys for the help)
Hack for using deploy:web:disable with Passenger
About sixteen hours of the command line, trouble shooting, and dozens of tutorials later, a web page miraculously appeared! (It seems so easy in hindsight)
And now comes the fun part… prepping for actual people.
Matt Mazur 