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By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:12:55 +0000

This post helped me, so thanks! One difference I noted while setting this up though was that the proxy_pass directive has to live inside a location block. Here’s what worked for me:

server {
listen 80;
server_name phone.example.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://phone.example.com:4567/;
}
}

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:15:04 +0000

I think that actually the coolest part of this is that you are not *employing* a secretary, you’re *deploying* a secretary.

By: Brent Rockwood

Brent Rockwood — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:48:57 +0000

+1 to Heroku. I deploy test apps to it all the time in 10 minutes or less — 8 minutes of which involves fighting with my DNS.

By: Mike H

Mike H — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:36:55 +0000

I highly recommend heroku. You can be deployed in 5 minutes, and it’s free for the lowest level of processing power.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:48:59 +0000

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By: Ade

Ade — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:06:07 +0000

This is very cool, but did it really take just 10 minutes to code? I find that hard to believe.

By: Noah

Noah — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:55:48 +0000

Awesome script. As others suggested, Rack is the ‘right’ way to interface with a webserver. The, take a look at Heroku for no-hassle deployment and hosting:

http://docs.heroku.com/rack

By: Felipe Coury

Felipe Coury — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:42:56 +0000

You can also Deploy it to Webbynode without all the hassle:

http://blog.webbynode.com/rapid

Worth a look

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:48:44 +0000

Listen to Ken Hoxworth!
Just wanted to add that your sinatra app could also run using passenger on nginx. Passenger supports both.
You usually only have to point passenger to the public directory of your app and create a rackup file (config.ru) like this:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘sinatra’
require ‘main.rb’
run Sinatra::Application