Recently I have been researching solutions for Ruby on Rails deployment by provisioning my own VPS.
This post will not outline my solution entirely as I have not finalized the route that I will take. I will simply discuss some of the resources that I currently have and a few high-level ideas.
I am currently using DreamHost’s VPS plan. I figured that I could start with them as they have been good to me in the past. Currently, I have root access to my VPS, etc. I have begun initiating installs to compile the production stack that I would like to have on my VPS. It should mirror my development environment as closely as possible.
But, after reading a few things about Chef that entail using various recipes and cookbooks I might provision the VPS now with their helpful tools.
Going the Heroku route might end up costing me a lot in the long run. For now, I will keep some testing and development apps on there still.
Of all the online deployment learning materials, one that I would like to praise is Reliably Deploying Rails Applications. So far, so good. Go check it out.
I’ll be back with more details soon.
Written on May 17th, 2015 by Gabriel Martinez