: Ruby on Rails 3 - Hosting Patterns? I'm just starting to give RoR a go (RoR3 to be precise), and I'm wondering about hosting. For PHP applications, it's easy to run multiple of them on the

@Miguel251

No, this assumption is not correctly. There are several solutions to have a Rails application up and running. The right one really depends on the complexity of your project.

If you just need to learn how to use Ruby and you don't want to fight with all the sysadm tasks, then you can give Heroku a try.

If you want to go with your server, I strongly encourage you to check out Passenger. It's a Nginx/Apache module you can install to run a Rack (thus a Rails 3) application. And it supports multiple apps on the same server.

For a more technical overview, check out this question.

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