You've build the killer rails app. Now what? This class will go over detailed examples from provisioning and securing your servers, to deploying your app, and monitoring and tuning performance. In this class, we will publish a real website from scratch, with consideration for real world concerns, like safeguarding passwords, turning on and off application monitoring, multiple machine deployments, and general system administration tasks.

Once your application is deployed, what happens when it gets rushed under heavy load? The rumor is that 'Rails doesn't scale'. Well, Rails does scale, very well in fact. You just have to know a few things. In this class, we'll work thorogh hands on examples and you'll come away with the knowledge to deploy to a rock-solid, scalable platform.