These are the steps I followed to get from a fresh Ubunto Gutsy installation on Slicehost to a complete Rails deployment including: DNS records, SSH keys, Server Security (disabling root access and changing SSH port), SVN, Ruby, MySQL, rubygems, Rails, Mongrel, Mongrel cluster, nginx and Capistrano.
- http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/10/24/creating-dns-records (More info: http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=detailed_information_on_dns_record_types)
- http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/11/23/ubuntu-gutsy-mysql-and-ror (Pages 1 and 2)
- http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/1/16/ubuntu-gutsy-nginx-vhosts-rails-and-mongrels
- http://articles.slicehost.com/subversion
- http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/1/9/capistrano-series-introduction
- http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/11/29/ubuntu-gutsy-mongrel-clusters-and-surviving-a-reboot
