This is my notes for presentation by Eileen Uchitelle from RailsConf 2015. You can find the video at Confreaks. The slide can be found at Speaker Deck.

First of all, let’s get one thing straight. This is not a guide for those who are trying their best to not use Unix like environment in develop Rails application. This is more like a guide to do almost everything in Linux without replacing your Windows.

A free way for us to setup free version of uptime service.

I was trying to deploy a Rails application using Apache and got into some problems when I tried to configure the app so that Apache will be the one that serves the precompiled assets (javascripts, css, images and others). Since I’m on tight deadline (yeah, I should’ve tested production mode much more earlier), I tried my luck with Nginx and it worked easily without any hassle. So, this is how I did it.

Here’s a guide on how to setup Xen virtualization in Slackware.