What to do after Rails deployment?

I am am a newbie in Ruby on Rails development and I am learning this fantastic framework fast and easy. The only problem (which is a big one) is how to deploy.

I have tried a Linode StackScript which installs Ruby, Rails, Passenger and Nginx and I have made a "cap deploy" and all files was sent to the server but how on earth do I get this public. When I visit my website (IP) it seems to be down 开发者_StackOverflowor not responding. Is there anything I need to do after deployment to make my app available to the web?

Thankful for all help, I really want to slay the deployment beast!

For ease of deployment, and scalability, have you looked at Heroku instead of hosting your own server?

That would make the process of deploying as simple as git push heroku