Dead Simple Rails Deployment

Deploying a Rails app used to suck. Reverse proxies, Mongrel clusters, Monit, etc. Capistrano helped out a lot (once you set it up the first time), but all in all the process was still pretty painful.

Thankfully, a couple of technologies have come along and made my deployment process a whole lot easier.
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3 Reasons Why Heroku is a Game Changer

For the uninitiated, Heroku is a “cloud” (hate that term) hosting service for Ruby applications. Their claim, which I believe they have substantiated, is to be an “instant ruby platform” and their success changes the game. Here is why.
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