Can dist on build server and copy archive to prod if that option is available (or upload from local dev machine).
It's ridiculously simple, and all generated at compile time.
I don't understand hand wringing deployments, is Rails _that_ good?
I mean, outside of MVC, RESTful routing, form validation, AR, migrations, etc. functionality that exists in other frameworks/libraries, what does Rails actually bring to the table that is unique?
Is it the gem ecosystem, where you can find x,y,z functionality that exists nowhere else, or some cutting edge Rails feature? I don't know, just asking, spent a year on a Rails clone, Grails, and was not really taken, tracking runtime MOP errors is no joy, give me a static compiler any day over that.
> Need versioned assets? Need multiple versions of assets in prod? Play doesn't do it out of the box.
Just turn off assets entirely as the Capistrano author does with Rails. Running Bower + GruntJS here, snappy fast, well happy working with tools designed for the job.
Not sure about multiple asset versions, I just have front end web server handle inbound /assets/img/foo.timestamp.png request as /assets/img/foo.png. It's not too difficult to create an asset helper trait to append timestamp at container start up to asset paths.
> Need a specific version of the JVM? Play can't help you there.
This is hardly a strike against Play, installing Java is not exactly an overwhelming task ;-)
> Need to change your start script to do something different (ports, SSL, JVM config). Play can't do it.
$ play dist
$ unzip app-name.zip
$ cd app-name
$ ./bin/start
Can dist on build server and copy archive to prod if that option is available (or upload from local dev machine).
It's ridiculously simple, and all generated at compile time.
I don't understand hand wringing deployments, is Rails _that_ good?
I mean, outside of MVC, RESTful routing, form validation, AR, migrations, etc. functionality that exists in other frameworks/libraries, what does Rails actually bring to the table that is unique?
Is it the gem ecosystem, where you can find x,y,z functionality that exists nowhere else, or some cutting edge Rails feature? I don't know, just asking, spent a year on a Rails clone, Grails, and was not really taken, tracking runtime MOP errors is no joy, give me a static compiler any day over that.