Review: Rails Deployment: Production Configuration and Advanced Rails Tactics
Rails Deployment: Production Configuration and Advanced Rails Tactics by Ezra Zygmuntowicz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Overall, this book had a lot of very good information, and it was very helpful to me as I deployed my first Ruby-On-Rails application into a “Production” environment.
Here’s the high points:
- Lots of good information on tools such as Capistrano, MySQL, Mongrel, Apache, and nginx.
- The authors clearly know what they are talking about.
- It’s helpful if you’re deploying a “toy” application (like I am) and if you’re deploying a large, clustered application.
- It doesn’t assume that you’re already an expert on either Web app deployment or Ruby-On-Rails.
Here are some of the things that could be better:
- This book was published over a year ago, and it already feels out-of-date. For example, there isn’t one mention of Phusion Passenger, even though this tool seems to be the new standard app server for Ruby-On-Rails in Production environments.
- This is very subjective, but I feel like the information could have been organized a little better. I felt as if the author jumped around a bit sometimes.
- Also, some of the passages were a little difficult to read due to their incorrect sentence structure. My writing isn’t perfect either, but I believe that the editor should have fixed more of these mistakes.
If you’re deploying a Ruby app in any setting, then this is a good book to get. I just don’t know if I would actually buy it.
