Rails Servers with Unicorn and Nginx

26-minute Ruby Workshop

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About this Workshop

In this workshop, we're going to show you how to set up a "reverse proxy" between your Rails app and the Internet at large. We've going to use a high-performance web server called Nginx as our reverse proxy. Nginx will also serve the static files in our app's "public/" directory, so Rails doesn't have to.

We'll also set up Unicorn, an HTTP server that will manage connections to your actual Rails app. Unicorn is good for your site's stability and speed.

Teacher

  • Jay McGavren

    Resident Ruby and Go teacher for Treehouse. Author of Head First Ruby, a tutorial book on the core Ruby language.

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