This article gives a decent overview: http://www.aidanf.net/deploying-rails-on-a-clean-ubuntu-slic...
Aside from that, you can search for tutorials related to blank slate hosts like Slicehost and Linode - they tend to cover rails well.
Aside from that, you can search for tutorials related to blank slate hosts like Slicehost and Linode - they tend to cover rails well.
MediaTemple has RoR grid containers and other hosts support Rails now, but I don't know of a turnkey solution ... although Heroku looks interesting.
Seriously, if you get a slicehost slice w/ Ubuntu Hardy, Apache and mod_rails, you can get your app up in < 3 hours.
Plus, there's something to be said for getting on the server and learning how to do some things yourself.