How to deploy a Rails app to a VPS (or dedicated server)?

Question

How can I deploy a Rails app to a VPS (virtual private server) or a dedicated server? It would be nice to have an easy to follow guide.

I know about scripts to autom

Answer 1

I deployed my rails application to my production servers (it's a cluster) with Capistrano before, but I found that Capistrano is a bit complex and sometimes even became trouble maker... So I wrote my deployment script by bash shell script.

I have put it on github with a brief guide: deploy_rails