Now a days Apache + mod_proxy + mongrel_clusters, Lighttpd + Mongrel cluster and Nginx + mongrel cluster are well known for deploying rails applications.
You can also deploy your rails application with pound(a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server).
First you need to setup mongrel_clusters for your rails application by issuing [...]

I was using acts_as_searchable for one of my project, which uses Hyperestraier in background. Yesterday I decided to use acts_as_solr which uses solr(based on Lucene Java search library). I did all written in its Manual/Readme, but when I issued

rake solr:start

to start the solr server, it threw a heart breaking “Bad file descriptor” error, [...]

Yesterday I posted about CruiseControl for Rails projects. It was working fine with all my rails projects using traditional test cases, But today I faced a problem with a project using RSpec. Actually, By default CruiseControl follows the following step to build:

rake db:test:purge
rake db:migrate
rake test

This default was not working with my last project As I [...]

We at vinsol recently started using CruiseControl for our rails project. CruiseControl is a continuous integration tool. Which keeps an eye on you code repository and runs all test cases (or the command you specify) whenever new version of code is found, it also sends a mail to all members specified when testcases fails [...]

If you wish you can get notification right into your inbox when a team member commits the code. This mail will contain list of files added/deleted along with the svn diff of files that are modified. This needs some extra efforts to setup, but once it is setup it is very helpful.
This can be done [...]