Ruby in Production: Lessons Learned

Having deployed a variety of Ruby apps (Rails and non-Rails) over the course of many years, here are some lessons I’ve learned to keep things afloat. Tools like Mina and Capistrano already do most of these (more on that further down), but its good to have a first-hand understanding of what needs to happen. All these instructions are available a ready-to-use repo: ruby-deploy-kickstart Ruby/Rails d