Deploying Rails 4 in production on windows apache MySQL

From experience: the best thing to do is to forget about windows deployment. If this is not an option, then maybe look into JRuby and Warbler. Just don't expect:

• much help from the community (because "nobody" deploys on windows)
• comfortable worfkflow
• stuff that works out of the box

Also i don't see why you would need XAMPP?

If you are at your first attempts on deploying I'd recommend you Heroku.

 Heroku

The nice benefit is you can install addons (eg. a mysql database) in a matter of clicks:
- https://elements.heroku.com/

Steps are really easy:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-rails4#write-your-app

Briefly:

# Install the `Heroku Toolbelt`# inside Gemfile: gem 'rails_12factor', group: :production# [git init & commit]$ heroku login$ apps:create my-app-name # run `heroku create --help` for further help$ heroku addons:create jawsdb # mysql addon for `heroku`$ git push heroku master$ heroku run rake db:schema:load

 AWS

After a while you may realize although it's easy to deploy you'll want more tuning and probably better pricing.
At that point usually comes AWS, which has a good balance of all this, I'd recommend you Elastic Beanstalk.

• Install EB CLI 3
• Setup git
• $ eb init
• $ eb use your-environment-name
• $ eb deploy
• $ eb ssh # to enter into the machine