Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#1

Post by danramteke » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 4:13 PM UTC

Maybe I'm typing the wrong things into Google, but the easy way to host a Rails app is eluding me. I know how to set up capistrano, thin, nginx, Ubuntu, mysql, etc, but where can I find this set up out of the box? It's gotta be out there.

Suggestions? Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#2

Post by qhoxie » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 4:25 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#3

Post by danramteke » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 4:46 PM UTC

qhoxie wrote: post #2

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?

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#4

Post by ph0rque » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 5:33 PM UTC

have you tried heroku.com?

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#5

Post by callmeed » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 5:48 PM UTC

danramteke wrote: post #3

qhoxie wrote: post #2

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?

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 some things yourself.

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#6

Post by smoody » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 5:54 PM UTC

http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/10/20/automatic-production-rai... -- it's a no-fuss script for bringing up production Rails on slicehost.

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#7

Post by utnick » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 6:27 PM UTC

setting up mod_rails on slicehost is pretty straightforward

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#8

Post by danramteke » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 6:28 PM UTC

ph0rque wrote: post #4

have you tried heroku.com?

just signed up for an invite. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#9

Post by danramteke » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 6:32 PM UTC

smoody wrote: post #6

http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/10/20/automatic-production-rai... -- it's a no-fuss script for bringing up production Rails on slicehost.

this looks useful, thanks for the link.

Re: Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?

#10

Post by danramteke » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 6:38 PM UTC

callmeed wrote: post #5

danramteke wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slicehost.com does have some nice tutorials for just getting started. Is there a turnkey solution out there?

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.