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Didn't most people use ant to deploy back then? I think it was a Java build tool or something? I feel like I should know this better - the maintainer of ant was actually working for us at the time, deploying early Rails apps using ant. I just remember deciding right then and there that I very much preferred writing code over troubleshooting deploys (and what we now call "devops").

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I don't know about ant... we were using Capistrano back then.

I do recall when capistrano became a thing (it was called switch tower but had to change for trademark reasons if I recall). Prior to that, most folks working with Rails in production were using ant. I wouldn't be surprised if there were other ways as well back then, given it was early days.

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