During Rails Conf Europe 2008 Day 1 I attended an excellent tutorial on Deploying and Monitoring Ruby on Rails . The session very clearly explained the several deployment options with Rails.

Readers who are interested in reading Michael's book online can visit the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book web site. The book and videos are also available on the Ruby on Rails Tutorial web site.

Other resources: Rolling with Ruby on Rails: A fantastic tutorial on Rails, including how to get it installed. Really Getting Started in Rails: A great companion to the Rolling piece.

I have a VM running Linux Mint and have installed RVM and have some tutorials (though for an older version of Ruby) and just want to play around with it and get a feel for setting up something ...

Developer demand for Ruby and Rails remain high, but the specific ways both language and framework shine (or don't) are crucial to know ...