Workshop 7: End of the Line: production site migration and maintenance

Workshop 7: End of the Line: production site migration and maintenance

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).

Hartl & Prochazka (2008) state development and the test are two different environments that the applications are run in Railspace. Similar to these environments, production environment also requires a corresponding database.

when deploy applications for development or testing environment, we need to:

• Configure the production database connection in the file named database.yml.
• Create database in the production server
• Run the migration in Rails by using of ‘rake’ to construt tables in it

Stop the development server and start a new server in production environment by using the -e flag (>ruby script/server -e production)

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 webserver



References
Hartl, M. and Prochazka, A. (2008). Railsspace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails. Person Education, Inc.

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