Rails deployment from a windows machine
deployment, ruby-on-rails, windows
Solution
The best way right now is to use mod_rails on your server, and deploy using a tool called Capistrano. Capistrano is windows compatible and I use it on windows myself all the time.
Here's a guide that explains how to set up and use both tools: http://cjohansen.no/en/rails/multi_staging_environment_for_rails_using_capistrano_and_mod_rails
If you want an even easier set up, check out http://www.heroku.com. They are a great Rails hosting company and they provide an excellent set of tools to set up and deploy your rails applications to their server. It's free to get started, but you will need to pay a little bit if your site grows. They are 100% windows compatible, since deployment basically consists simply of you pushing to a git repository on their server.
Good luck!
Problem
I'm a rails novice and just finished my first rails app(as far as I can tell). Now I'm at the deployment stage and find myself utterly confused--especially because I'm deploying from a windows machine. I bought the pragmatic book on deployment and it seems a little out of date since they're recommending subversion instead of Git. What would be the easiest deployment method these days for someone doomed to use windows? Are there any good up-to-date tutorials on deployment from Windows?