Question

I created rails application, it works great in development environment, but now I want to deploy it. I have a vps with passenger and nginx, I deployed rails application with static pages, but now application needs database.
Which best way to clone structure from development base and then deploy it?
Please give any guides to deploy application?
I use (ubuntu 10.04_64, rails 3.0.6)

Answer 1

It sounds like you want a copy of your development database (structure and data).

If you are using a sqlite3 database in development (which you probably are), then on the server (after you’ve deployed) make a copy of it and name it production.sqlite3

cp development.sqlite3 production.sqlite3

This will copy the structure and data of your development database. If its a static site however, you could do this on the development machine before you deploy.

Let me know if you need instructions to do this for mysql (or any other database) and I will edit this answer.