Blind Squirrel

When deploying a Rails application using Capistrano, I discovered I needed a way to specify the username and password for Subversion and I didn't want to hardcode this information. I found an excellent suggestion on Jonathan.inspect. I didn't follow his advice exactly, but I ended up with something fairly close that I added to my deploy.rb script:

The basic idea is to setup one or more instances of Mongrel to handle the Ruby/Rails content and have Apache handle static content. In addition, Apache will act as a proxy and load-balance the request to Mongrel. The best resource I found was a page on Mongrel's site titled Apache Best Practice Deployment.

Here's the basics of how I set it up:

Software: