Workshop 7

Developers conclude their work with the OTBS and look at the options for deployment of the site. Examine the various platforms/software tools used for deployment such as UNIX environment suggested in the Discussion Notes, Mongrel or Mongrel cluster, Nginx, Subversion or Capistrano (during development stage), JRuby in the Java environment.

Which way?

The choice is up to you as this workshop present just one option and you may like to use another, such as deploying the OTBS in a .NET or J2EE environment

For my Online Taxi Booking System (OTBS), I install Ruby on Rails 1.8.6-26 and Rubygems 1.3.2 in my windows server 2003.

In Ruby on Rails development, i would like to use “rake” to generate the database table and use scaffolding to generate the view page. It is very powerful for Rapid application development.
Then, I feel Ruby on Rails is very suitable for SQL operation, because the simplest datbase operations are often described as CRUD (Create, Rad, Update and Desctroy).

Can you get the OTBS Running in production mode as a minimal production server?

As a minimal production server:

• Using Mongrel / Linux OS / Apache Web server, as the Rails application server
• Setup the same softwares (such as Ruby, Rails, database and plugins) on the server like the development computer
• Upload the Rails project to the server, follow the deploy application steps at the above to create and configure the production database
• Install and configure the application server and webserve