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Where can I find a description of the invocation path of a rails application? The request comes in to the web server, for example Mongrel… then what? How does the controller get invoked? How does the data generated by the controller get to the view?
I’d love a list or diagram or something.
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How do you go about developing a RoR web app on one machine (say a Windows workstation) and then transfer that to a production webserver (Say a Linux/Apache server)?
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Use Capistrano
I develop in RadRails on my windows machine. After setting up Capistrano in my rails projects i can type “cap deploy” and bam, code is now on my production server. Capistrano does tie in with svn, so you might want to look at setting that up on your production server.
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Can I invoke render_component outside of the context of a webpage request? My site has a daemon (which I start using script\runner) that sends out email to subscribers every day. To generate said email, I’d like to use the same rendering infrastructure that I use on the normal site.