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So far really liking the tutorial. Just one thing, as a rails newbie, could you expand a little more on the deploying part of section 1, specifically giving an example of deploying NOT using heroku.

It's just I want to be deploying to just a generic server running rails and I want to know how the process is different. I know you have to set the ENV to production but at what stage of the process does this happen etc...

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Check out the Capistrano docs at https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki which are pretty comprehensive for getting started with Rails deployment.

I second that. Capistrano does have a very comprehensive run down of how that all works but for the beginner I can see them getting lost with those. Most Rails tutorials I've seen either tell you to deploy to Heroku or if they don't they don't cover deployment to your own server so much, it usually feels like a quick skim.

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