Besides the Mongrel_Rail for RoR app, I found a new server modules:

Phusion Passenger

It is easy to deploy with Apache

http://www.modrails.com/

I have tried it, it works well, maybe more test on it in the future.

my ruby.conf for my app in Apache

“<”VirtualHost *:80”>”

ServerName myip

DocumentRoot /path/to/app/public/ # the RoR app’s public directory

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip

BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000

ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2592000

ExpiresByType text/css A2592000

ExpiresByType text/html M604800

“<”/VirtualHost”>“