CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2013/ch1 1w09 hs

Code Deployment and Release Management with Rails

Code Deployment or Software Deployment and Release management with Ruby on Rails uses various tools such as Capistrano, Heroku, Mina, Vlad, Inploy etc. These automated tools are frameworks used to write and execute commands in parallel remote machines and thus ease the process of deployment and management of various applications.

Introduction

Deployment is a process of transferring your application onto a production server to make it available for other users. This process involves various activities and transitions between them. Though the general procedure remains same, the specific requirements vary with the software system.

Deployment Automation tools

Capistrano

Capistrano is a Ruby program that gives you a set of advanced tools to deploy web applications to your servers. With Capistrano it’s also possible to deploy to many machines at once. Capistrano offers many advanced options and can be used to deploy many kinds of applications.

Comparison between Capistrano/Heroku/Vlad

Criteria	Capistrano	Heroku	Vlad
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References

technet.microsoft.com

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