I have developed a nifty web application using rails and would like to host it. Unfortunately I'm unsure how i can cheaply host my application. I'm aware of various deployment tools like capistrano and I've also herd of Heroku. I presume these tools help in hosting.
However can anyone provide me the steps to host a web app in details esp using rails and what all options i can have for doing it?
New options are being made available as Ruby on Rails gains popularity for Web app development, but for current Ruby on Rails developers, there are three main hosting providers (which are cloud platforms). These include AWS, Digital Ocean and Heroku.
EDIT
It has been pointed out to me that a link in my answer does no longer work. Which is not that surprising, since this is a 3 year old answer. Because It seems like people are still stumbling on this answer, I would like to redirect people to this page:
https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/16.04
It should have all the information you need to deploy a rails application.
End EDIT
I recommend that you check out
http://rubyonrails.org/deploy
to start with.
And also http://www.cloudfoundry.com/ and https://www.engineyard.com/
are both great hosts for any rails application, and they also have some pretty easy to follow step-by-step tutorials on how to do so.
As Leito mentioned Heroku in his answer, I would like to point you to http://www.codeschool.com/code_tv/heroku
If you choose Heroku as your host, you could check out that video as it shows you how to deploy a simple rails application.
Heroku is the easiest in my opinion, I recommend you start here https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3
Heroku is more an application hosting and uses git to deploy your app, so no need of capistrano or similar tools.
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