Rails - Feb 2007 - Deploying RoR is HARD....from a beginner's perspective

So I''ve finally been seduced by the hype that is RoR and have now gone
hog-wild buying books and downloading as many resources as I can.  I''m
a Lotus Notes/Domino professional and have always done all of my web
app development in Domino.  I''ve stuck with Lotus because it offers a
fantastic RAD platform which allows me to throw together a totally
functional prototype in less than a day.  Deployment is a non-
issue...I can either develop directly on the server or locally and
then just replicate to the server.  Really, it''s that simple.  There
are some drawbacks, however.

1.  It''s not free.
2.  Writing LotusScript and Java Agents is not the most elegant
programming experience in the world.
3.  It just feels incredibly clumsy and "old school" at times and it
can be a real pain to implement the latest and greatest whiz-bang
interface elements for which I''m such a sucker.

I''m not planning on abandoning the platform altogether as that would
be impossible to do given that I work in the DC area and all of my
clients are DOD.  It''s hard enough trying to keep them from ditching
IBM for M$ so I don''t think RoR would really go very far any time
soon.  I would definitely love to start free-lancing and if all of
what the marketing says is true then RoR seems like something that
I''ve been dreaming of for some time.  It''s something that I
thought
I''d found in Java a while back but quickly found that it was
ridiculously bloated and complex.  I don''t want to waste alot of time
dealing with complexity...I just want to build something functional in
a small amount of time.

I want a web development platform that is truly object-oriented and
will essentially allow me to better focus on the actual design of the
application instead of spending so much time trying to work my way
through the complexities of the "nuts and bolts" and logic.  When I
say design, I''m not talking actual aesthetic design although that is
the part I most enjoy.  I''m referring to how the application actually
works - being able to sit back and think the whole thing through and
basically identify all of the parts I''ll need to put together in order
to build my app.  I want these parts to essentially be built already
for the most part and I simply want to be able to grab them out of a
"tool box" and put them into place within my application.  I want to
be able to have the majority of the application "framework" ready for
me to customize and tailor to the needs of my project.  RoR seems like
it can do all of this AND provide me with the tools I need out of the
box to satisfy my obsession with shiny, whiz-bang interfaces.

So I''ve downloaded InstantRails, RadRails and bought lots of books.  I
went out and bought a hosting account at RailsPlayground and thought
this would be as simple as me grabbing an example application and
monkeying around with it until I got the basic idea of how to make
things work my way.  Here is the obsticle I''m facing right now....

Deploying an application seems like a major PITA.  I''ve got this
hosting account and I thought that putting my application on the web
would be as simple as FTPing the app folder over to my account..kindof
like it is with DreamWeaver.  Wrong.  It appears that I have to
actually know my way around Linux and I absolutely cringe at command
line interfaces.  I''m hopelessly hooked on GUIs as they''re all
I''ve
ever known and the thought of not having one is pretty spooky.  It''s
alot like being told that I have to ditch electronic communication and
go back to pen and paper + snail mail.  Not cool.  Is this just
something that I''m going to have to get over if I hope to go deep into
RoR?  Is there a dreamweaver-type IDE out there for RoR that allows me
to deploy my app to the server with the click of a mouse?  Can someone
out there either point me in the direction of my GUI life-raft or
shatter my delusions and tell me I need to learn Linux in addition to
RoR?

I really want to just dig in and put something together, not spend
weeks learning my way around command-line interfaces and such.  While
I know that there''s probably no WYSIWYG IDE for RoR out there, is
there something that will at least let me get my app on the web with
ease?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  One of the things that
draws me to RoR is the community surrounding it.  I look forward to
hopefully interacting with all of you and contributing as much as I
can.


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Adam Keith Burrell wrote:
> ...I''ve stuck with Lotus because it offers a
> fantastic RAD platform which allows me to throw together a totally
> functional prototype in less than a day.
Fantastic, if you don''t mind (as I have heard) that Lotus Notes
fiercely
resists automated tests. That is a major indicator of logical problems with 
the core of a development platform, however nice all the peripheral items 
may be...

Your post doesn''t contain the term "Capistrano". Install
that, learn to use
it (that''s a little hard), and after it works then deployment becomes
once
again a non-issue...

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  http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!!


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Thanks so much.  I will try to get Capistrano working.  I have installed it
but get errors everytime I try to run the Cap command on my application.

C:\Instant13\InstantRails\rails_apps>cap --apply-to ~/rails-apps/typo-2.6.0
C:/Instant13/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb
:21:in `require__'': couldn''t find HOME environment --
expanding
`~/rails-apps/ty
po-2.6.0/config/environment'' (ArgumentError)
        from
C:/Instant13/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cust
om_require.rb:21:in `require''
        from
C:/Instant13/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.
4.0/lib/capistrano/generators/rails/loader.rb:5:in `load!''
        from
C:/Instant13/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.
4.0/lib/capistrano/cli.rb:276:in `execute_apply_to!''
        from
C:/Instant13/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.
4.0/lib/capistrano/cli.rb:237:in `execute!''
        from
C:/Instant13/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.
4.0/lib/capistrano/cli.rb:12:in `execute!''
        from
C:/Instant13/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.
4.0/bin/cap:11
        from C:/Instant13/InstantRails/ruby/bin/cap:18


Do you see anything obvious here?  I''m assuming that nothing is working
because I don''t see a deploy.rb file in the app config directory. 
I''m not
quite sure what a SVR is and I''m pretty sure that I''ve never
created in my
RailsPlayground hosting environment.  Is this something that is there by
default?


-Adam

On 2/10/07, Phlip <phlip2005-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> Adam Keith Burrell wrote:
>
> > ...I''ve stuck with Lotus because it offers a
> > fantastic RAD platform which allows me to throw together a totally
> > functional prototype in less than a day.
>
> Fantastic, if you don''t mind (as I have heard) that Lotus Notes
fiercely
> resists automated tests. That is a major indicator of logical problems
> with
> the core of a development platform, however nice all the peripheral items
> may be...
>
> Your post doesn''t contain the term "Capistrano". Install
that, learn to
> use
> it (that''s a little hard), and after it works then deployment
becomes once
> again a non-issue...
>
> --
>   Phlip
>   http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!!
>
>
> >
>

-- 
Regards,


Adam Burrell
Software Engineer
VPC Solutions Inc.
(703 626-1787 (cell)

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Hi Adam,

Adam Keith Burrell wrote
> Deploying an application seems like a major PITA.  I''ve got this
> hosting account and I thought that putting my application on the web
> would be as simple as FTPing the app folder over to my account.
Depends on what hosting service you''re using.  There''s a lot
of variation.
My sys admin skills are nil, so I looked around and settled on an account 
with a2hosting.com.  Deploying was pretty much just like what you''re
looking
for, as Rails is already installed.  You have to create a database but that 
was easy using cPanel. Copied my code over, set up the db, entered a ticket 
to get them to put mongrel in front of it.  Good to go.  Their support is 
fantastic and I highly recommend them.  If I can do it, I''d say anybody
can
;-)

hth,
Bill 



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Adam Burrell wrote:
> Thanks so much.  I will try to get Capistrano working.  I have installed 
> it
> but get errors everytime I try to run the Cap command on my application.
What howto are you reading?

Does your ISP support Rails? If not, getting another ISP might be more 
cost-effective than muddling forever installing Rails on the server. Cap 
don''t do that.

If your ISP supports Rails, what''s their Howto for Capistrano?

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> cap --apply-to ~/rails-apps/typo- 2.6.0
"~" represents a UNIX home folder.  Given you are on windows, this
isn''t really around.  Try using Windows conventions to refer to the
root folder of your application.

-Kyle

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I think I''ll just head back to my Mac to dig into this.  It''s
just too
frustrating on Windows.  Thanks anyway.

On another note, it seems that my isp (RailsPlayground) provides
instructions on doing what it is that I''m trying to do (Install Typo)
so
hopefully I''ll get it straight sooner than later.



On 2/10/07, Kyle Maxwell
<kyle.c.maxwell-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> > cap --apply-to ~/rails-apps/typo- 2.6.0
>
> "~" represents a UNIX home folder.  Given you are on windows,
this
> isn''t really around.  Try using Windows conventions to refer to
the
> root folder of your application.
>
> -Kyle
>
> >
>

-- 
Regards,


Adam Burrell
Software Engineer
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(703 626-1787 (cell)

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Prime example -

I''m simply trying to install typo on my hosted account.  I''m
following the
rules provided by my ISP and am running into issues left and right.
Shouldn''t it be as simple as me uploading the application to the server
and
pointing apache to my app?  I hate to draw comparisons but in Domino, this
would be as simple as me uploading the app to the server.  If I need to
redirect my url to it I simply setup a redirection document.  Oh well, this
isn''t Domino and I need to learn the rails way....

-Adam

On 2/10/07, Phlip <phlip2005-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> Adam Keith Burrell wrote:
>
> > ...I''ve stuck with Lotus because it offers a
> > fantastic RAD platform which allows me to throw together a totally
> > functional prototype in less than a day.
>
> Fantastic, if you don''t mind (as I have heard) that Lotus Notes
fiercely
> resists automated tests. That is a major indicator of logical problems
> with
> the core of a development platform, however nice all the peripheral items
> may be...
>
> Your post doesn''t contain the term "Capistrano". Install
that, learn to
> use
> it (that''s a little hard), and after it works then deployment
becomes once
> again a non-issue...
>
> --
>   Phlip
>   http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!!
>
>
> >
>

-- 
Regards,


Adam Burrell
Software Engineer
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(703 626-1787 (cell)

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Adam Burrell said the following on 02/10/2007 07:05 PM:
> Prime example -
> 
> I''m simply trying to install typo on my hosted account. 
I''m following
> the rules provided by my ISP and am running into issues left and right. 
> Shouldn''t it be as simple as me uploading the application to the
server
> and pointing apache to my app?  I hate to draw comparisons but in
> Domino, this would be as simple as me uploading the app to the server. 
> If I need to redirect my url to it I simply setup a redirection
> document.  Oh well, this isn''t Domino and I need to learn the
rails way....
BTDT.
Its about familiarity.
I had no problems deploying Typo (on Dreamhost) without reading
instructions.  They''re Linux; I''m used to Linux.

If I tried deploying anything in Domino I''d be having the same
frustrations
as you are with Typo; I''m not familiar with it.

Persist.  We were all beginners once :-)


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their own governours, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge
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Adam Burrell wrote:
> I''m simply trying to install typo on my hosted account. 
I''m following the
> rules provided by my ISP
I meant "your ISP''s instrunctions on installing on your site via 
Capistrano". Like this:

http://wiki.railsplayground.com/railsplayground/show/How+To+Use+Capistrano+With+RailsPlayground

( http://tinyurl.com/2g22f3 )
> and am running into issues left and right.
If your ISP doesn''t support Capistrano, then you are stuck at the
bottom of
the learning curve. Setting a Rails site up thru a SSH login is like 
assembling one of those model ships inside a bottle, via long tweezers and 
such. Without assembling the ship outside the bottle and then sneaking it 
in.

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Adam Burrell wrote:
> I think I''ll just head back to my Mac to dig into this. 
It''s just too
> frustrating on Windows.  Thanks anyway.
>
> On another note, it seems that my isp (RailsPlayground)
Uh, I found those instructions hard to follow, and I already had non-trivial 
Capistrano (and SVN) experience. I advise the admin to upgrade the docs. You 
must start here, despite the "Guru" in the title implies this is the 
advanced stuff. It is, instead, the getting started stuff. You must set an 
SVN account up:

http://wiki.railsplayground.com/railsplayground/show/diff/How+To+Use+Capistrano+with+the+Guru+Plan

( http://tinyurl.com/yv72o7 )

Ask support@ themselves for more details there!

Next, if you get this far, Apache refuses to serve public or 
public/dispatch.* if any of their permissions are _too_ permissive, such as 
chmod 775. They must be 755. I added this cap task to my config/deploy.rb:

  run ''chmod 755 ~/champion/current/public '' +
                ''~/champion/current/public/dispatch*''

Not to keep you in suspense, here''s my entire deploy.rb, which has
worked
for a while, with the sensitive details masked; ### for the project name, 
%%% for the site name, and *** for the Linux/SSH user name, and
''phlip'' for
the SVN user name. (Note that the project and site names are _different_; 
that''s a software engineering Best Practice, for if your client needs
to
perform the Replace Owner Refactor...)

set :user, ''***''
set :svn_username, ''phlip''
set :svn_password, ENV[''SVN_PASSWORD'']
set :server, ''%%%.railsplayground.net''
set :application, "###"
set :repository, "http://%%%.svnrepository.com/svn/###/trunk"
role :web, server
role :app, server
role :db,  server, :primary => true

set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/#{application}"

task :restart, :roles => :app do
  run ''chmod 755 ~/###/current/public '' +
                ''~/###/current/public/dispatch*''
end

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Adam--

I''d venture a guess that deployment was never as easy as "just  
sync''ing" or FTPing. You have to create databases, some security  
measures need to be in place to make sure you''re not scribbling madly  
all over system files, and so on. You''re just used to the hoops  
you''ve been jumping, not the Rails hoops.

Rails is not well supported by a GUI, and many would say that''s a  
good thing. GUIs are wonderful for abstracting underlying OS stuff  
out of your mental working set, but you''re still performing the same  
actions as you would at a command line. The problem with relying on a  
GUI too much is that it can lull you into forgetting about how your  
code really interacts with the environment in which it runs. Maybe  
typing in Linux commands is a bit closer to the metal than you  
expected in the first decade of the 21st Century, but it seems that  
most successful Rails developers are doing just that.

One reason I moved away from heavily IDE-centric development was that  
the environments kept making decisions *for* me and they were not  
great choices. I wound up with brittle code left in simply to keep  
the IDEs from spitting up chunks. In every way, I would say that  
shedding the bulky IDEs has been liberating.

Oh, and you can actually FTP a Rails app up to a server and start it.  
I recommend Capistrano, as it makes deployment predictable and  
rollback easy. But just for your comfort, understand that Rails apps  
are still just a collection of files and they can get to the server  
any old way you want. What you cannot do with a Rails app is make a  
wholesale in-situ replacement of the application by copying it.  
That''s because Rails relies on loading certain parts of the framework  
once per serving process and never again until a server restart.  
Sure, you can replace a controller or view periodically, but with  
Capistrano, you''ll probably discover that deploying the whole app is  
as easy as copying any given file.

Good luck and press on!



On Feb 10, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Adam Burrell wrote:
> Prime example -
>
> I''m simply trying to install typo on my hosted account. 
I''m
> following the rules provided by my ISP and am running into issues  
> left and right.  Shouldn''t it be as simple as me uploading the  
> application to the server and pointing apache to my app?  I hate to  
> draw comparisons but in Domino, this would be as simple as me  
> uploading the app to the server.  If I need to redirect my url to  
> it I simply setup a redirection document.  Oh well, this isn''t  
> Domino and I need to learn the rails way....
>
> -Adam
>
> On 2/10/07, Phlip <phlip2005-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Adam Keith Burrell wrote:
>
> > ...I''ve stuck with Lotus because it offers a
> > fantastic RAD platform which allows me to throw together a totally
> > functional prototype in less than a day.
>
> Fantastic, if you don''t mind (as I have heard) that Lotus Notes  
> fiercely
> resists automated tests. That is a major indicator of logical  
> problems with
> the core of a development platform, however nice all the peripheral  
> items
> may be...
>
> Your post doesn''t contain the term "Capistrano". Install
that,
> learn to use
> it (that''s a little hard), and after it works then deployment  
> becomes once
> again a non-issue...
>
> --
>   Phlip
>   http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
>
> Adam Burrell
> Software Engineer
> VPC Solutions Inc.
> (703 626-1787 (cell)
> >

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s.ross wrote:
> I recommend Capistrano
This is an interesting question for the Rails FAQ: Does Rails
"recommend"
Capistrano, or does Rails "require" it. Of course you can go
SFTP-crazy and
get a running Rails site (including Ruby stuffed into the ~/bin folder, if 
you like, and including manually stopping and starting the web server). Is 
there any other productized solution besides Cap??

About IDEs, the best IDE for a programmer is a command line with the option 
to write wrong command lines, but where short command lines are easy.
''rake
deploy'' is just a button, now.

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On Feb 10, 2007, at 10:53 PM, Phlip wrote:
> Is there any other productized solution besides Cap??
rsync? Nobody''s thought it through (AFAIK) as well as has been done  
in Cap, but I''d be surprised if Komodo and/or Steel don''t come
up
with something that either provides similar functionality or wraps  
Capistrano at some point.

As cool as Capistrano is, relying on it doing "magic" is not the  
right thing to do. If you rely on Capistrano magic, you''ll get by a  
lot of the time, but the one time when you want to tweak a  
deployment, you won''t understand how the darn thing works in the  
first place. That''s why it''s so useful to copy files up to the
server
and set the permissions and tweak around with the servers and blah,  
blah at least once so you understand all the goodness you''re getting  
from Cap.

Hey wait. You''re still going to have to mess around with the servers.  
All Capistrano can do is restart them. You have to apply the critical  
thinking involved in properly configuring them for the mix of pages  
you expect to server and the load they are expected to handle.

See, this is the Web-scripting myth: You can throw anything at a Web  
server and it will happily churn out pages no matter what. Behind the  
scenes of every high performing Web site are people thinking about  
what the best Web server technology for the job might be. Developers  
have to be involved in this kind of thing. No IDE or deployment tool  
gets around that. And to the OP, this is not stuff unique to RoR --  
it''s always lurking there.

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s.ross wrote:
> As cool as Capistrano is, relying on it doing "magic" is not the
> right thing to do. If you rely on Capistrano magic, you''ll get by
a
> lot of the time, but the one time when you want to tweak a
> deployment, you won''t understand how the darn thing works in the
> first place. That''s why it''s so useful to copy files up
to the server
> and set the permissions and tweak around with the servers and blah,
> blah at least once so you understand all the goodness you''re
getting
> from Cap.
A good way to look at this: Capistrano is DRY.

Using Capistrano, you Don''t need to Repeat Yourself.

For example, I noticed my webserver kacked on a public/ folder with 
permissions of chmod 775.

(Because I followed your advice, and built many websites the old fashioned 
way, I know what "chmod" means. [And I know how icky those web servers
are
that don''t have the elegant simplicity of chmod to rely on!])

So I manually ran chmod 755 public a couple times.

Then I got inside deploy.rb, and added run ''chmod 755 public''.

Capistrano allows me to Don''t Repeat Myself. It took over this menial
task,
so I didn''t have to do it over and over again.

And this rescued me from the terrors of researching who or what was setting 
my public folder to 775.

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To paraphrase Laurence Oliver:

Son, you need to learn how to program.

On Feb 10, 10:05 pm, "Adam Keith Burrell"
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 I''m hopelessly hooked on GUIs as they''re all
I''ve
> ever known and the thought of not having one is pretty spooky.

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Hi Adam,

I too am relatively new with Rails, so apologies to the rest of you if
what I say is naive or inaccurate, but at least my process gave me
some success on bluehost, though probably my hosted apps are still in
deployment mode, since i saw no difference changing the setting
environment.rb to production.

But I have yet to read the deployment chapter in version 2 of Agile
Web Development with Rails. Thats a book I love by the way!

I use a Mac so you may need to make some conversions, I found Rails
development much nicer on a Mac compared to Windows, though intial
installation can be fiddly. The main issue is the different rails
installation on my webhost.

So the way i deploy an application (on bluehost), is:

1. create the db, with the webhosts DB tools, or you can use something
like CocoaMysql (nice GUI), but then you will need your host to allow
the connection via the appropriate port, and you will need a static IP
address.
2. From a terminal (try cygwin on windows, maybe that will work for
you) change to the user that your webhost expects you to be (I created
a special user for that in my prefs) "su" (admin), then just type
"su
username"
3. ssh in to the host and go to rails dev directory. (type "ssh your
address", and then password), then "cd" to the rails dev
directory.
4. "rails newapp", creates a new app (this is done because your host
will have a different rails installation from you, and caused me to
become unstuck sometimes)
5. ftp up and overwrite
	- the app directory
	- db directory or parts of it if this is the second time around
6. Edit:
	- database.yml : user and password should be what ever you set up on
the host.
	- change appropriate stuff on the server in routes.rb
	- delete default/index.html
7. Run a rake process to create the DB schema "rake migrate"

8. create new subdomain in the host (look at your host directions for
this) and point it to your new rails app.

Let me know if anything is unclear, since i copied this list from my
notes.

I have some web services which let me synchronise data in the DBs
between the local machine and webhost, let me know if you need tips
for that, though that was much easier than deployment.
J


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Neil Wilson said the following on 02/11/2007 05:17 AM:
> To paraphrase Laurence Oliver:
> 
> Son, you need to learn how to program.
> 
> On Feb 10, 10:05 pm, "Adam Keith Burrell"
<aburr...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  I''m hopelessly hooked on GUIs as they''re all
I''ve
>> ever known and the thought of not having one is pretty spooky.
See http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning...was_the_Command_Line

And that "Neal" not "Neil".

And ow do you think those GUIs make use of the system command that they
front for?

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If you use Visual Studio, you may want to try out our IDE, Ruby In 
Steel:

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/
#
Adam Keith Burrell wrote:
> While I know that there''s probably no WYSIWYG IDE for RoR out
there
You may also want to glance at our RoadMap:
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-Road-Map

Note the section:

"Visual Rails Developer - Visual Web Page Designer for Rails"
That will be along in a few months ;-)

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne
SapphireSteel Software

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Fantastic!  I''ll be in line for it when it comes out.

Thanks to everyone for their responses so far.  I hammered at it most
of the night and eventually found out that Typo doesn''t work on my
hosted server (per the hosting admin) and I was able to successfully
install and configure Mephisto, which is pretty nice.  Now my next
step is to work through the new book "Build your own..." by sitepoint
and build my "Digg clone" app.  I think I''m going to stick
with FTP
and learn how to get everything set myself for now.  I was able to get
RadRails to work with my site using the subversion repository.  I feel
like it might be possible for me to just use that setup but something
tells me that I''ll need to set permissions or tweak the server in some
way regardless.  I have the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book so
maybe it''s got some good deployment info in it.  Combined with all of
the great resources you all have pointed me to so far, I think I''ll be
okay.  I do need to say that the support at RailsPlayground so far has
been outstanding and very responsive.

Also, I''m primarily a Mac user (Macintosh obsessive is more like it)
and was only using a Windows machine because I don''t have a Mac laptop
right now and I needed to work on a laptop.  I''m hoping to spring for
a MacBook in the next month or so.  I was actually turned onto RoR by
one of the geniuses at the Apple store where I worked most of last
year.  It''s great that they''re actually going to put Rails w/
Mongrel
in Leopard server.  That combined with all of the other services built
in are going to make it pretty hard to pass up.  I recently got to
take a peek at the Wiki server that they''ve built in and it''s
gorgeous.  It''s something that Apple has built themselves and
it''s
going to be quite useful.

-Adam

On 2/11/07, Huw Collingbourne
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> If you use Visual Studio, you may want to try out our IDE, Ruby In
> Steel:
>
> http://www.sapphiresteel.com/
> #
> Adam Keith Burrell wrote:
> > While I know that there''s probably no WYSIWYG IDE for RoR out
there
>
> You may also want to glance at our RoadMap:
> http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-Road-Map
>
> Note the section:
>
> "Visual Rails Developer - Visual Web Page Designer for Rails"
> That will be along in a few months ;-)
>
> best wishes
> Huw Collingbourne
> SapphireSteel Software
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>

-- 
Regards,


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On 2/10/07, Adam Keith Burrell
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wrote:
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> While I know that there''s probably no WYSIWYG IDE for RoR out
there


Adam,

If you add the MasterView plugin to your rails app then you can write view
templates that are editable via a standard WYSIWYG html editor like NVU. We
have also designed it to have the full power of Rails, using layouts,
partials, and helpers. It has a scaffold generator that can get you closer
to production ready CRUD than the default one. There is a couple videos
about how it works on http://masterview.org/

I would be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Blessings,

Jeff


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Here is a barebones cap deploy how to 

 

I had someone at the cap list go over it

 

This does not help you deploy cap with apache or a database

 

 

it shows how to use cap with rails and svn

 

hope this helps as much as it helped me

 

I found the other capistrano docs missing small steps that could make a
beginner become a quitter 

 

:D

 

 

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Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:06 AM
To: rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
Subject: [Rails] Re: Deploying RoR is HARD....from a beginner''s
perspective

 

On 2/10/07, Adam Keith Burrell
<aburrell-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

While I know that there''s probably no WYSIWYG IDE for RoR out there



Adam,

If you add the MasterView plugin to your rails app then you can write view
templates that are editable via a standard WYSIWYG html editor like NVU. We
have also designed it to have the full power of Rails, using layouts,
partials, and helpers. It has a scaffold generator that can get you closer
to production ready CRUD than the default one. There is a couple videos
about how it works on http://masterview.org/ 

I would be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Blessings,

Jeff


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