This document discusses deployment strategies for Rails applications. It describes using Nginx as a front-end HTTP server with Mongrel as the application server. Capistrano is recommended for deployment automation. Caching at the page, action and fragment level with Memcached is also covered as a strategy for improving performance. Challenges discussed include Ruby threading and memory management issues, as well as integrating C extensions and ensuring interoperability. Installation details are provided for deploying a Rails app with Passenger on Apache. Benchmarks are mentioned comparing Mongrel, Thin and Passenger.