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I have been observing the developments in the RoR world with quite some interest lately. I think there are a few very significant improvements – the most important being the availability of mod_rails. The installation and setup is almost a no-brainer. I still remember the amount of pain it took to get Rails up and running in Apache2. And all the varying combinations of “best setups” offered – Apache (1.3), Lighttpd, LiteSpeed, Nginx, and finally, we’re back to Apache2. It’s about time. I think this will give a big boost to Rails adoption.  I really like that I can run multiple Rails apps on a single server with just a vhost setup, instead of mucking around with mod_proxy.

Next, I’ve been reading about Slicehost quite a bit, and I thought I should give it a shot. So we setup our staging server there, just to give it a shot. I ended up being very impressed – especially, I really like articles.slicehost.com – amazingly detailed and clear-cut source for setting up Rails apps on Slicehost. And pretty up-to-date too. I just finished setting up a Rails app on a Hardy Heron slice with the site’s help. I still remember the hoops we had to jump through to get the ‘perfect setup’ done on a vps. Really, the kids have it so easy these days.

"State of RoR: the kids have it so easy" was given life on on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 12:58 pm and, I think, categorized Rails. Mentioned in this entry was deploy, Rails, slicehost.