Setup Ruby on Rails in DigitalOcean

By Jiazhen Xie | 30 August 2014

Tags: ruby, rails, devops, deployment

Recently I moved the site from Heroku to DigitalOcean. As you can imagine, deployment could be difficult. Therefore I'd like to summarise the steps to deploy to DigitalOcean. Create a droplet with one-click Ruby on Rails Application First of all, you need to create a droplet in DigitalOcean. Install git SSH to the server then run Configurate codebase Deploy 1. Configure the database to point to the database 2. Install gems 3. Add any environmental variables to 4. Restart the server 5. Allow remo...

← Back to Home