| First you'll learn how to build out your shared, virtual, or
dedicated host. Then, you'll see how to build your
applications for production and deploy them with one step,
every time. Deploying Rails Applications will take you from
a simple shared host through a highly scalable clustered and
balanced setup with Nginx.
See how to tell whether you've bought enough firepower, and
learn how to optimize your Rails projects applications in a
systemic, rational way. Take advantage of advanced caching
techniques, and become and expert with the latest servers in
Nginx and Mongrel. Don't worry. You'll get a dose of Apache
too.
Not only will you learn how to configure your production
environment, you'll also see how to monitor it with free,
automated tools that can restart your servers when the
memory use gets too high for comfort. You'll see how to take
a performance baseline, profile for bottlenecks, and solve
the most common performance problems you're likely to see.
You'll learn:
Everything from source control and migrations to Capistrano,
rake tasks and beyond.
Directly from authors who run EngineYard, one of the best
Rails hosts in the business.
How to deploy your applications to multiple production
servers with a single command using Capistrano.
How to setup a Rails/Nginx/Mongrel cluster for applications
with high scalabilty needs.
...and more!
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