How to Deploy a Rails App with mod_rails on Slicehost (using an Ubuntu slice)

someone really had to write this up? watch the screencast, it's pretty simple.<p>also, why "on Slicehost" instead of "on a VPS"? Still don't understand why people are so loyal to Slicehost. Linode ftw.

Inserting a big chunk of C++ into my Apache listeners doesn't give me warm fuzzy feelings. Neither does the fact that mod_rails just flat-out doesn't work on OS X, which is where a large number of Rails developers do most of their actual, y'know, <i>development</i>.<p>Personally, I don't think you can really call this a 1.0 release. Pre-beta preview, maybe; stable, point-oh release, definitely not.

Haven't tried mod_rails yet, but have had a challenging time deploying rails apps in general<p>For those that feel the same way I really recommend Rails Machine. Obviously getting something like mod_rails working on Amazon EC2 would give us scalability, but had to put that on the back burner for now.

Has anyone figured out how much less memory mod_rails uses than say Mongrel? I haven't gotten round to experimenting with it myself yet.

so many choices with Rails...does anybody have any experience with mod_rails?