Rails Machine Gems
What are they?
The Rails Machine gems are a collection of libraries for automating deployment of Ruby on Rails applications using Capistrano. You can view the project page on Rubyforge
In addition to the railsmachine gem for deployment, the mongrel_cluster gem simplifies the creation and management of mongrels.
For setting up a Rails environment quickly and easily, there is the Machinify gem.
Who can use the gems?
Anyone can use them. All Rails Machine VPS are set up for it- it’s what makes the 5-minute deployment possible.
The gem will work even if you don’t have a Rails Machine server, and you are free use it. However, you will need to setup your server in a similar way to what would be available by default on one of our machines. To make sure the paths on your server match the expectations of the gems, look through the Capistrano recipes included with the gem in /my/ruby/lib/dir/gems/1.8/gems/railsmachine-