Workshop 7 End of the Line: production site migration and maintenance

Topic reading from Safari Books Online
Hartl, M & Prochazka, A, (2008). RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails, Pearson Education
This workshop continues to use your reading of the ‘RailsSpace’ online book and use of other online sites.

Answer:
I have read the required online book at CSU library.

Focus Question
As either a developer or as an IT manager, what are the options available when deploying and maintaining the Ruby on Rails application online?

Answer:
According to the given discussion note, I discuss with Sam Kwong. The options available when deploying and maintaining the Ruby on Rails application online are...
1. Windows Platform VS Linux
We select Linux as our platform because Linux is freeware with higher stability than MS-Window
2. Skillset on ROR and Platform
There is no issue on skill set of ROR and Linux Platform because both of us have sound skills on ROR and Linux
3. Hosting Issue
I will place the server in our office as a production environment
4. Scalability
I will use the mongrel clusters for fault tolerance and Lunix RAID 5 external diskarry so volume expansion become easy.
5. Tools
We will use ROR freeware tools on the web.

From the given intruction,
which way you choose to go will most likely depend upon:

• The user interface and your own skills;
• How quickly you are guided through deployment by admin tools that simplify management of the system;
• System back-up, data security, virtualization and portability features:
• Future-proofness: (grid computing or a cloud computing service);
• How much time and money is saved by an efficient deployment and maintenance schedule.

This guideline is very important and useful.