Rails - Jun 2006 - Moving from a development to a production environment Qs

People,

I have done a few little RoR apps and have struggled to move them from
the WeBrick development environment to a production environment - I have
actually succeeded but what I have done seems clumsy so I must be
missing some things, eg:

In public/.htaccess

    RewriteBase /library

In app/views/layout/*.rhtml change:

  <li><a href="/library">Home page</a>
  <li><a href="/library/authors/list">Authors</a>
  <li><a href="/library/books/list">Books</a>

to:

  <li><a href="/">Home page</a>
  <li><a href="/authors/list">Authors</a>
  <li><a href="/books/list">Books</a>

Also in httpd.conf I couldn''t get VirtualHost to work and had to use an
alias:

Alias /library "/var/www/html/library/public/"
 <Directory /var/www/html/library/public/>
   Options ExecCGI
   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
   AllowOverride all
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
 </Directory>

So when I am updating from the development to the production dir I have
to copy everything except:

.htaccess
database.yml
index.rhtml
layouts/
log/
tmp/

There must be a simpler way?

What about using Mongrel in a production environment?

Thanks,

Phil.
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