Deployed!
Well, my first rails application is done. It's taken about 5 weeks, and lots of looks at the documentation, but I've finally got this thing deployed behind cgi and apache.
I'll be posting a write-up on the development experience over at alexbartlow.net once the weekend comes and I get some free time, but one thing is readily apparent:
Rails is _too_ magic. It is simply too good.
I'll explain why in the write-up.