Wouldn’t it be cool if you just could
apt-get install mongrel
to set up the great Mongrel web server including a recent version of Ruby and everything else needed to run your Rails applications in a combined Mongrel/Apache load balanced setup on a rock solid and easy-to-maintain Debian Sarge server ?
If the answer is yes, this one is for you.
Not that I don’t like gem, but on production systems I prefer to have as less package mangement systems as possible ;-)
So the goal is to set up such a server, without doing a single gem install or ruby setup.rb. We’ll need to install rubygems itself, though, since Mongrel depends on it. But as there’s already a debian package for this, there’s nothing to worry about.
