In this week’s episode Cameron Dutro, a software engineer at GitHub, Ship It listener and someone with an extraordinary attention to detail, joins us to talk about Kuby, a convention-over-configuration approach to deploying Rails apps.

The question that we will be trying to answer is what happened to Rails Active Deployment. The path to that promise land is paved with good intentions, but it’s complicated.

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Featuring:

• Cameron Dutro – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Deploy Your Rails App the Easy Way
• getkuby/kuby-core
• getkuby/kube-dsl
• 🎧 The Ruby on Rails Podcast #339 kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro
• github.com/gerhard/deliver
• deliver - LRUG, March 2013
• github.com/edeliver/edeliver

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