Vlad the Deployer is a Ruby-based tool for deploying Ruby on Rails applications to servers. It is designed to be highly configurable and provide a standard set of deployment tasks for Rails applications.
In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Vlad the Deployer on Debian Latest using the command line.
Before installing Vlad the Deployer, you must ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
Before installing Vlad the Deployer, you must first install the required Ruby gems. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo gem install rake net-ssh net-scp
Next, you can install Vlad the Deployer by running the following command:
sudo gem install vlad
To make sure that Vlad the Deployer has been installed correctly, you can run the following command to display a list of available tasks:
rake -T vlad
If the command displays a list of available tasks, this indicates that Vlad the Deployer has been installed correctly.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Vlad the Deployer on Debian Latest. Now that you have installed Vlad the Deployer, you can use it to deploy Ruby on Rails applications to servers. For more information on how to use Vlad the Deployer, please refer to the official documentation.
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