Important tips when you deploy Rails to Dreamhost

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• remember you can always debug stuff (further then the really informative “Rails application didn’t start properly”) starting webrick server via SSH on a random port (using the -p switch).
• remember you are switching to production, so you need to create the database, setup database.yml, migrate your schema and setup RAILS_ENV accordingly.
• if deploying to Dreamhost, install the Dreamhost Plugin
• Capistrano is your friend! (watching “rake deploy” going through its tasks is a lovely feeling)

About the photo disclaimer: no white powder was used to write this post nor to develop my webapp.