Latest Screencasts

In a previous episode, Using ActiveRecord with Sinatra, we showed you how to use ActiveRecord and Sinatra to build a URL shortener. We showed how to get ActiveRecord up and running in your Sinatra application, and now in this screencast, we'll show you the various ways on how to configure...

PHD gives you Passenger-based Heroku-like Deployment. Having been spoiled by Heroku for some time, I love being able to run 2 commands from a git repository to deploy an application: 1 $ heroku create my-app 2 $ git push heroku master If you have Passenger installed on a server, you...

Tonight, at the Phoenix Android meeting, someone asked if I knew any good Ruby / Rails web hosts. Something easy for someone who’s just learning Rails and wants to be able to essentially copy/paste their code to a server and have it “just work.” The first (and only) service that...

Do you know how to make Capistrano tasks? See how to change default deployment behavior with custom tasks in this episode.

Technical editing by the creators of Phusion Passenger™. Phusion Passenger™ dropped onto the scene in early 2008 and immediately caused quite a stir. Many developers have hoped for a way to run Rails applications natively inside Apache, and now it’s possible! Passenger™ makes development easier and is the best way...

Jared Kuolt shows how to quickly deploy your Rails application to a Slicehost VPS. This talk covers installing MySQL, Nginx, Rails and Mongrel, as well as deployment using Capistrano. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Capistrano 2 is a tool for automating the deployment of your application to a server. You can also automate many other monotonous server-maintenance tasks. It is written in Ruby but can be used to deploy any kind of web application. This 50 minute screencast talks about the concepts behind Capistrano...