Tips on deploying Ror

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Tips on deploying Ror

How can I go about deploying a Rails app on a cluster of Amazon EC2 servers? Any recommended guides?

I maintain a RoR app (currently hosted on Heroku) that uses a DB and DelayedJobs). The app has a large footprint, and needs to be distributed on a cluster most likely. Any tips would be appreciated. Are there Amazon AMIs that replicate some of Heroku's features (especially DJ)?

P.S. I'm quite a Ruby newbie.

Any reason it can't stay on Heroku? You can scale Heroku dynos and workers as you see fit, and can upgrade to a dedicated database instance if it really needs it.

bensie 2010-05-04 23:29:00

The app is very IO intensive, and requires a lot of workers to scale well. Heroku charges a fortune for workers, rather than charges for CPU usage.

notnoop 2010-05-04 23:41:03

Have you looked into the Engine Yard cloud? They handle the configuration of the servers, you just turn on however many you need.

bensie 2010-05-05 01:08:34

@bensie, yes, I did, and it does seem good; however, I want to compare it to managing it myself. Also, there is a public value to an answer.

notnoop 2010-05-05 01:45:31

Given that you're new to Ruby/Rails, I wouldn't recommend diving in and trying to manage your own servers. EY/Heroku have done all the hard work of handling the optimizing, backups, caching, monitoring and scaling. You could probably find an EC2 AMI that's ready with Rails, Passenger/Nginx, etc -- but it's not going to be a beautiful cluster that's ready for production. Also, know that with EY cloud you'll need to familiarize yourself with Chef.

bensie 2010-05-05 03:07:37

I would use a clean (ebs-based) AMI from Alestic or Amazon and configure it myself. It's very difficult to find an appropriate AMI (or several for web-server, app-server, DB-server and make them work together) and a high risk to trust it.

elasticsecurity 2010-05-12 09:49:56

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