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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ip2loc

ip2loc is a simple tool which visualizes location data for a given IP address using the Google Maps API. I created it for a few reasons:

1. Most sites that do this charge or are clunky
2. I wanted to write a simple application with Sinatra
3. It was a good excuse to sharpen my jQuery skills
4. Boredom

ip2loc is powered by Ruby, written in TextMate, and deployed with Passenger on DreamHost.