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Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby

You're reading from   Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby Make clones of some of the best applications on the Web using the dynamic and object-oriented features of Ruby

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511063
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chang Sau Sheong Chang Sau Sheong
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Deploying the clone


Unlike as in the previous chapters, we will only see how we deploy to a normal server, and not to Heroku. This is because while we store most of our data on Amazon, for fast processing we actually keep temporary cached files in the same server. Unfortunately Heroku doesn't provide for non-database file storage (we are not allowed access to the file server). While there are a few other ways of deploying Photoclone on a non-dedicated server, the steps are almost the same. We will only describe one way of deploying the service.

Deploying on a server

For development purposes we would normally run it off the command line using the built-in web server. However, before we do this, we need to set up the database. For this application we would need to have MySQL already installed. At the command line go into the MySQL interactive command console:

$ mysql –u <username> -p <password>

Then just do a simple command:

mysql> create database photoclone;

This will just create...

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