Rails Website Launch Checklist

rails_website_launch_checklist.md

Ruby on Rails Website Launch Checklist

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• Run Brakeman and resolve any issues where required
• Run rails best practices and resolve any warnings
• Run full test suite and make sure all tests are passing
• Make sure no dummy email addresses are left in any notification emails (eg contact form)
• Make sure production assets compile correct (eg files in vendor, etc, compile and are not 404'ing in production environment)
• If using unicorn in production, make sure deploys are restarting the unicorns
• If using passenger in production, make sure deploys are restarting web servers and passenger
• Make sure environment variables are setup correctly
• Google Analytics Added
• Exception Notification (gem or error tracking service)
• Outbound Mail Provider Setup and working in production (eg SendGrid, Mandrill)
• Check Rendering of Website in All Major Browsers (up to 2 versions back)
• Check for correct page title rendering (eg title element in head)
• Check for correct meta tags
• Check for allowed crawling of the site through robots.txt
• Favicon added?
• Run rake notes and check for any actionable items
• Make sure that the user of the Locale functionality is in place instead of hardcoded strings
• Only Use Environment Variables instead of hard coded strings (these should not be in version control)
• Correct timezone implemented?
• Implemented a log tracker? Eg log entries
• Run through Google Webmaster Tools, eg broken link checker
• redirect www to non-www or vice versa
• error, not found, etc pages
• sitemap.xml file
• database backups (preferable to be off-server, eg S3)