Ruby on Rails deployment

Today I started using Switchtower, the Ruby on Rails application deployment software, and I’m truly impressed with the powerfulness of it. I’ve never really used deployment systems before, I’ve always done it manually, but now I’m hooked.

Now I can keep my focus on the code and just execute rake deploy when I think a feature is ready.

Have to check out “Gauge”, the application monitor system for rails, some day too. Haven’t heard much about it since before the 1.0 launch. It would be great to have a real-time monitor system for all the applications. Mostly because I can be notified if there seems to be a problem, but also to generate cool graphs! :-)