Deploying rails applications using nginx

Over the weekend I moved some of my rails applications to yet another rails deployment option (See my previous posts on deploying rails with apache, mongrel and mod_proxy_balancer or pound, lighttptd and mongrel).

I replaced apache with nginx, a small fast webserver with good proxying and rewriting capabilities. Nginx is extremely fast, a lot easier to configure than apache and uses much less memory. The process was remarkably painless.  read more »

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Deploying rails on a clean ubuntu slicehost VPS

I got a new 1GB slicehost vps yesterday. Up to now my preferred rails deployment was to use pound to proxy dynamic requests to a cluster of mongrels and static requests to lighttpd. Previously I had used lighttpd with fast-cgi but since mongrel was released I have avoided fast-cgi solutions. I also played around with using nginx with mongrel. For my new vps I decided to move from my previous deployment configuration of pound, lighttpd and mongrel to apache 2.2 with mod_proxy_balance and mongrel.  read more »

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Configuring pound with lighttpd and mongrel.

This article describes how to configure pound to use lighttpd to serve the static parts of your rails application and mongrel to serve your dynamic content.  read more »

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