How to Deploy a Rails App with mod_rails on Slicehost (using an Ubuntu slice)
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also, why "on Slicehost" instead of "on a VPS"? Still don't understand why people are so loyal to Slicehost. Linode ftw.
In general, video sucks as a medium for surprising number of applications. I rarely bother with it - when I stumble across one while looking for something, I always move on to the next search result.
When I was transitioning from Windows development over to Linux world, I was lucky to have guys like this one, posting "obvious" things on their blogs: it's indispensable when searching for a specific error message you got in your terminal.
edit: now it's up
Personally, I don't think you can really call this a 1.0 release. Pre-beta preview, maybe; stable, point-oh release, definitely not.
Uhm, what language do you think all the Apache modules (mod_rewrite, mod_perl, mod_php, etc.) are written in? They're all either C or C++, so by your logic all of Apache won't give you warm fuzzy feelings.
"Neither does the fact that mod_rails just flat-out doesn't work on OS X,"
This is false. Passenger does work on OS X, but because of an issue in the default Apache installation provided by OS X, Passenger is unable to work. If one installs Apache via MacPorts (or some other means) then Passenger will work just fine. In fact, the installer warns the user about exactly this issue.
Many, many people have tested Passenger on OS X, and it works fine for them. Ryan Bates of Railscasts, the one who made the screencast, used OS X. Pratik Naik, a Ruby on Rails core developer who helped with testing Passenger, used OS X.
For those that feel the same way I really recommend Rails Machine. Obviously getting something like mod_rails working on Amazon EC2 would give us scalability, but had to put that on the back burner for now.