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This article gives a decent overview: http://www.aidanf.net/deploying-rails-on-a-clean-ubuntu-slic... Aside from that, you can search for tutorials related to blank slate hosts like Slicehost and Linode - they tend to cover rails well.
Slicehost.com does have some nice tutorials for just getting started. Is there a turnkey solution out there?
have you tried heroku.com?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the main drawbacks at this point are that your app can't send email, and you can't do cron stuff.
The free service is great, and I'll have my wallet out when they offer premium with those types of features.
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Are you looking for something low-cost or more of a high-end managed service? MediaTemple has RoR grid containers and other hosts support Rails now, but I don't know of a turnkey solution ... although Heroku looks interesting. Seriously, if you get a slicehost slice w/ Ubuntu Hardy, Apache and mod_rails, you can get your app up in Plus, there's something to be said for getting on the server and learning how to do som…
Looking for something with a low barrier to entry, but with room to grow. Something not unlike AWS, but totally tuned for Rails. I'm thinking about building such a solution if nothing else works out. For my personal use if nothing else.
have you tried heroku.com?
Heroku is great. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the main drawbacks at this point are that your app can't send email, and you can't do cron stuff. The free service is great, and I'll have my wallet out when they offer premium with those types of features.
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Looking for something with a low barrier to entry, but with room to grow. Something not unlike AWS, but totally tuned for Rails. I'm thinking about building such a solution if nothing else works out. For my personal use if nothing else.
Perhaps there is an AWS machine image tuned for Rails?
Try this list: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsWebHosts
and 'rails hosting' on google.
Setting up a Ubuntu Hardy Heron with Rails: http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-hardy