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mlstudent
mlstudent

Reputation: 958

Deploying rails app to EC2 using capistrano

So I'm going through this tutorial http://blog.grio.com/2012/07/how-to-deploy-your-web-app-to-amazon-ec2-using-capistrano.html to deploy a rails app to EC2, and I'm confused about a few things in deploy.rb. In the default version of the file, I have:

role :web, "your web-server here"                          # Your HTTP server, Apache/etc
role :app, "your app-server here"                          # This may be the same as your `Web` server
role :db,  "your primary db-server here", :primary => true # This is where Rails migrations will run
role :db,  "your slave db-server here"

However, previously I was hosting on heroku where I was assigned a url. Since this will be a facebook app, I don't want to deal with getting a url, so is there anything I can do to get one automatically like I did on heroku? Also, what is the idea behind this, ie what is it doing?

set :deploy_to, "/var/www/myapp"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 959

Answers (1)

mcardleliam
mcardleliam

Reputation: 168

When you run Capistrano, you are running it from your local machine.

The: 

"your web-server here"

is for the IP address of the remote server you are deploying your app to.

The:

set :deploy_to

is specifying the folder on the server you want.

Upvotes: 1

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