Rails Snippets - 10/31

Oct 31, 2007 Ruby Rails

The Halloween Edition

Obvious Code: Creating a simple news publishing system in Rails 2.0

One of the first tutorials I’ve seen that focuses on Rails 2.0.

Deploy a Ruby on Rails app on EC2 in five minutes

This would seem to make deploying a Rails app on Amazon’s EC2 very simple:

EC2 on Rails is an Ubuntu Linux server image for Amazon’s EC2 hosting service that’s ready to run a standard Ruby on Rails application with little or no customization. It’s a Ruby on Rails virtual appliance. If you have an EC2 account and a public keypair you’re five minutes away from deploying your Rails app.