Deploying Rails is Easier Than it Looks

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Claim: a typical Rails app runs on one VPS with EngineX, Unicorn, and PostGres; provisioning uses Chef Solo and takes about twenty minutes with a single bootstrap command; deployment uses Git + cap production deploy to get zero‑downtime releases. The presenter shows a real server web3.makeitwithcode.com returning a Welcome to EngineX page, cites cost savings versus Heroku, estimates ~1.5 hours to first working server and stresses monitoring via Monit and simple checks.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:13Why Heroku
3. 2:07Terminology
4. 2:35Behind the Scenes
5. 2:50Single VPS
6. 4:03App Server
7. 4:39Database Server
8. 4:53Recap
9. 7:13My experience
10. 9:10Configuration management tools
11. 12:08Dont repeat yourself
12. 13:06Heroku
13. 17:40Monitoring
14. 19:36nginx
15. 21:37ChefSolo
16. 23:18Next Steps

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