Setting up a Rails Server and Deploying with Capistrano on Fedora from Scratch

This article and video tutorial will teach you how to setup a basic Fedora server for Rails and PostgreSQL deployments. First, we’ll setup Apache and PostgreSQL. Then, we’ll use phpPgAdmin to create our application’s user and databases. After that, we’ll setup the Ruby platform using Passenger to run our application. Once all the components are installed, we’ll prep our application for deployment using Capistrano.

I’ll show you how to use Capistrano to automate remote tasks and take advantage of other features.

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