What is the best way to deploy Rails on Debian? I see that there has been some big advances in Ruby and Rails on Wheezy. That's excellent news! I know that the upstream ruby gem packaging architecture makes packaging for distributions quite difficult. Let me applaud the recent efforts to work through and around those problems! It is much appreciated. I can see that it is already much better than it was before. But I have some questions. I have asked the biggest umbrella question above and of course I know the phrasing is poor but it is phrased in the way that most people would ask it. I know "best" is open for debate. But that is the question. On Wheezy's (and Sid's) current image today: # apt-get install rails3 ... Recommended packages: ruby-coffee-rails ruby-uglifier But: # apt-cache policy ruby-coffee-rails ruby-uglifier ruby-coffee-rails: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: ruby-uglifier: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: And of course then: $ rails new foo ... run bundle install --local Could not find gem 'coffee-rails (~> 3.2.1) ruby' in the gems available on this machine. And after coffee-rails it would be uglifier right behind it if coffee-rails were installed. Of course that is simply the new project creation. If coffee-rails isn't used I can comment those out of the bundler Gemfile. But it still scary right at the start! And I also know that this is different from deploying a developed site. There I could "vendor everything" and avoid this too. (I think.) Also it looks like neither node.js nor therubyracer are available to satisfy the the runtime requirements. Advice? What is the Best Practice for Rails on Debian? Thanks! Bob P.S. Here are details that I wanted to include but knew it would make the mail too tediously long. But here is background on my task. Let me say that I am fairly well versed in Rails 2.x but am not up to speed on 3.x yet. That is one of my tasks. I need to understand and migrate some Rails 2.x sites over to Rails 3.x. In this way I am learning as I go and some of the issues I am experiencing are due to my inexperience and lack of knowledge with Rails 3.x. I would actually like to be able to deal with both version 2.x and 3.x appropriately since I know that some sites will take some effort to update. But at this point let's start with Rails 3.x. I am starting a Rails project where I will be working with some other developers. I am in the host driver seat and I will be using Debian Stable for the site. The other developers will be doing most of the Rails development. Meaning that they won't be understanding about the problems of deployment on a production system. They will be working on their own desktop which will be other various random operating systems. They will simply want features that exist in the world and it will be my task to provide those features on a good platform such as Debian Stable, targeting Wheezy. I have used rvm for deployments before. I found that using rvm means chasing an unstable version tree that is always in motion. It also means sometimes needing to understand rvm itself and patching shell script problems when it is broken such as due to /bin/dash differences. If possible and practical I would much prefer using system packages from the Stable release tree. I would like to avoid rvm on a production system. I can set things up with rvm but I really don't want to due to my previous experience with it. Wheezy will soon be Stable and therefore I am starting there now. I would like to be able to develop and deploy Rails (both 2.x and 3.x) on Wheezy.
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