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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 notesand 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)