May 23 2007
Deployable Rails Stack
From what I’ve gathered, deployment was a big theme at this year’s Railsconf. There’s a handful of groups targeting different virtualization platforms for easy-instant Rails deployments. DHH started a mailing list for the discussion, kicking it off with a succinct explanation of the goals.
It’s a great idea. Virtualization allowed me to work around a lot of rules as $last_job, and has the potential for easy deployment and at $new_job. Given the ease of use of a variety of virtualization options out there in the world, the idea of deploying your Rails / Django / Whatever app to a pre-built container is a really good one. It’s not a trivial exercise to get a nice LAMP stack approved by a stodgy sysadmin infrastructure. It’s way easier to say, “let me drop this vmware instance into your great big awesome vmware machine.”
Good idea Railsconf attendees. Attention everyone else: begin stealing this idea immediately.
