What are the requirements to use the RailsHoster deployment gem?

In order to use the RailsHoster deployment gem you need a few thins on your local system. However, in most this should already be given if you're a developer:

  • Ruby
  • Ruby gems
  • Shell (e.g. Bash)
  • SSH Shell
  • Git

Currently the gem also assumes bundler to be used. Let us know if this is a problem for you.

The gem has ben tested in Linux, Unix, BSD and MacOS X environments, so far.
It might not be possible to run the gem on Windows based systems.