#335 Deploying to a VPS pro

Mar 21, 2012 | 18 minutes | Tools, Deployment, Production

Deploying a Rails application can be overwhelming because there are so many different options. Here I present a pattern for deploying a Rails app to a VPS using nginx, Unicorn, PostgreSQL, rbenv and more.

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