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He's saying that all you have to do is post the file on a webserver with PHP installed and it should work. No compiling. No raking. No installing Passenger, Rack, etc...

I'm a Ruby guy, but I do recognize that PHP deployment is generally fast, smooth and easy.

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That exact same workflow exists for Passenger. I'm not even sure you can install Rails without Rack anymore. And installing and deploying a fresh Passenger install is easier than deploying a second app on a Mongrel/Apache cluster; it is very, very easy.

I know the first time that I tried to set up Passenger with Sinatra- I had some issues, despite following tutorials. I kept having to touch some file to get it to read the new files and wasn't really working as expected. PHP just seems to run after I apt-get the php stuff and drop the files in there.

But yes, generally Passenger does the trick.

I've consistently had problems deploying Rails apps. I can usually work through them, but it has never once been smooth.

It must be me, though, because every time I mention it, someone accuses me of being an idiot or trolling.

It used to be way complicated, but Passenger has made everything orders of magnitude easier. Tried it?

I understand the above, I was asking something else.

Your app machine pulls the new version from the source machine via scp, then changes a symlink. like a poor man's rsync --backup

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