Deploy Rails apps to EC2 in minutes with the RoR JumpBox
fyi: there's a step-by-step tutorial here on how to move the JumpBox to EC2 once you have your app deployed-> http://blog.jumpbox.com/2008/06/27/a-beginners-guide-to-runn...
Why this? If you have developed and app as a part of a webapp business, learn a lot about deployment on rails. It's not hard, and is a must.