Everyone knows that Rails deployment is a massive pain, right? Wrong. It’s time we all erased this outdated notion from our heads.

I just installed Redmine on my server, and it was simple. Thanks to mod\_rails, the sum total of web server configuration needed was this:

  <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName  dev.redcaride.com
    DocumentRoot /home/dbl/redmine/public
  
    <Directory "/home/dbl/redmine/public">
       Options FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride None
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
    </Directory>
  </VirtualHost>

No mongrels, no proxy_balancers, no FCGI (shudder). This was actually easier than when I installed WordPress on the same server last week.

So never again be put off a Rails application because you’re scared of deploying it! The world of open-source Rails applications opens up before you….</p>