Ask HN: Heroku style, Linux Distro

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Is there any kind of linux distro which includes everything to deploy your rails application?.

All-in-one, deploy-ready, standardized, easy-to-scale, well designed file structure

I was under the impression that Ruby people prefer their gems over distros packaging those same things. Judging by the stance a lot of rubists took against Debian and Ubuntu, it would be a safe bet to say that a distro you describe cannot really exist.

you really dont need a distro for that, you can just whip up a chef, puppet or pallet recipe and away you go...

can't recommend one in particular, but check some Amazon EC2 images.. someone has probably whipped one up

http://ec2onrails.rubyforge.org/

EC2 on Rails is an Ubuntu Linux server image for Amazon’s EC2 hosting service that’s ready to run a standard Ruby on Rails application with little or no customization. It’s a Ruby on Rails virtual appliance.

When I was doing my homework for deploying to EC2, I came across that and would highly recommend against it! For one thing, it's main committer is out of the picture and have yet to find a good branch with Rails 3 support.

I'd recommend looking into Rubber (https://github.com/wr0ngway/rubber/wiki) and Maestro (https://github.com/bploetz/maestro)

Adding to this, is there any easy way to set up a git deployment architecture on your own server?

check this out.. heroku-like deployment. The concept is simple enough to hack to your own needs

http://remi.org/2010/01/03/phd_passenger-based_heroku-like_d...

https://github.com/remi/phd

https://github.com/remi/pushand

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