I like using Ferret and acts_as_ferret to add full-text search to my models in Rails in a database-independent way. I've had a very difficult time getting this to work smoothly with my deployment process because the ferret server needs to be run in a separate process.

In a previous post I wrote about how to get git installed on CentOS. Now that git is installed it's time to actually set up a remote repository with git. In this tutorial I'll explain how to:

• create a git user on the remote server and configure the new git user correctly
• configure the deploy user correctly
• create a rails app locally and push it to the remote git server
• set up capistrano for deploying the app using git

A few days ago I read that mephisto 0.8 was released and that all of the cool kids were grabbing it from the git repository. I promptly got hip to git from John Nunemaker's post on git and github and grabbed the peepcode screencast to get started.