During Rails Conf Europe 2008 Day 1 I attended an excellent tutorial on Deploying and Monitoring Ruby on Rails . The session very clearly explained the several deployment options with Rails.

I have a VM running Linux Mint and have installed RVM and have some tutorials (though for an older version of Ruby) and just want to play around with it and get a feel for setting up something ...

Michael was coauthor of RailsSpace, a best-selling Rails tutorial book published in 2007, and was cofounder and lead developer of Insoshi, a popular social networking platform in Ruby on Rails.