[Rails] Re: simpler alternative to Capistrano for single instance deployments?

Greg, Capistrano manages the actual process of deployment. Moonshine manages ruby, apache, your database, iptables, god, cron, sphinx, gems, memchached, and just about everything else on your system, and it keeps your entire system config in version control. It plays nice with multiple rails apps

[Rails] Re: simpler alternative to Capistrano for single instance deployments?

Jarin - noting it has Capistrano under the bonnet what does Moonshine add exactly? When/why would you use Moonshine (with Cap) over just Capistrano by itself? thanks Greg On Feb 16, 12:29 pm, Jarin Udom wrote: > By the way, forgot to mention that the real strength of Moonshine for > simple setup

[Rails] Re: simpler alternative to Capistrano for single instance deployments?

By the way, forgot to mention that the real strength of Moonshine for simple setups is that the default configuration works amazingly well. You can go from a bare Ubuntu server with only ssh to a fully-running Rails app in around 10 minutes with maybe 5 lines of configuration. Jarin On Feb 15, 4:

[Rails] Re: simpler alternative to Capistrano for single instance deployments?

Moonshine takes Capistrano and makes it insanely easy, if you are running on an Ubuntu VPS or dedicated server (think Slicehost or similar). I gave a talk recently at SD Ruby that is a good overview of what it does: http://jarinheit.com/a-talk-i-gave-at-sd-ruby-deploying-rails-apps Jarin Udom Rob