Chapter 6. Deployment
Now that you’ve built an application, let’s put it on the Web for everyone to see. Rails applications can be deployed in many ways. Rails runs on everything from simple shared hosting to dedicated servers to virtual servers in the cloud.
The cloud application platform known as Heroku is one of the easiest ways to deploy your application, and I cover it in this chapter. Heroku uses the Git version control system to deploy applications, so we need to talk about version control systems first.
Version Control
A version control system (VCS) records changes to files over time so you can easily go back to a specific version later. The repository is the data structure, usually stored on a server, that holds a copy of the files in the ...
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