Quick and easy Slicehost slices

Question

Can anyone point me to an article with the best way to quickly setup a Slicehost slice with Rails/Git from scratch?

Answer 1

Slicehost has a number of useful articles on how to set up rails. These capistrano recipes might also come in handy.

Answer 2

I just did a slicehost installation (Ubuntu Hardy/RoR)

1. Install Ruby

2. thin installation (your RoR server)

3. Nginx installation (The web server/vhost/proxy)

4. Watch git tutorials here - they are great!

Thin/Nginx is very easy to set up compared to Apache/Mongrel, and uses less memory. Apache wins in some performance test, but uses more memory.

Answer 3

Rails core team member Josh Peek has some Capistrano recipes for setting up and deploying to Slicehost.

Answer 4

If you arent' experienced linux/apache admin, you can follow a sequence of 6-8 of pickled onions posts: apt-get update, SSH, iptables, mysql, ruby, gems, rails, apache, mod_rails

Here's the sequence for ubuntu intrepid

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Here's what i used for Hardy

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-setup-page-1

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-setup-page-2

http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/2/2/ubuntu-intrepid-installing-mysql-with-rails-and-php-options

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-installing-apache-and-php5

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/28/ubuntu-hardy-apache-config-layout

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/28/ubuntu-hardy-apache-configuration-1

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/28/ubuntu-hardy-apache-configuration-2

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/30/ubuntu-hardy-ruby-on-rails

(This is a good minimal sequence. I would recommend spending more time learning iptables, denyhosts, how to blacklist IP's and summarize logfiles to lock the server down).