This is set of utilities to simplify deployment and deployment testing of rails applications (deployment testing in local virtual machine). Deployment platform is ubuntu server 12.04 + ruby 1.9.3 + nginx + passenger and it is automatically build in vm and can be build on deployment server (bare metal and ec2).

Projects are organised under base folder for all projects. This repository should be put in that folder. All projects are inside individual project folders.

There are two folders inside the project folder:

• vm folder for virtual machine and
• rails_app for application.

Capistrano tasks are already setup for rails_app. Also, .ssh/config is setup for vm so that one can easily ssh to project-vm.

You can of course just copy your existing app in rails_app folder, but take care to have config/deploy.rb intact or at least reasonably included to have capistrano install and deployment tasks.

Generic vm can be build out of local vm with vagrant package and used as starting point for deployment and testing vm's. I still do not want to include anything on it yet, so that cap installs can be used on bare metal or ec2 instances.

This is still 0.x release. Use it at your own risk. Always keep backup of your app and data - git and github are your friends when it comes to code... It is supplied as-is. I assume no responsibility for it's usage. Here comes other legal blah blahs. You have my permission to copy, change and generally do whatever you like with this code...

USAGE

Preconditions

• ruby/rails installed
• VirtualBox/vagrant installed and some precise like box added

Setup project folder and plain vm

• from base folder, edit variables at the beginning of ./new.sh and run it
• ssh to vm ssh project-vm, run sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf and select noninteractive and high

Setup vm and do first deployment

from rails_app folder:

cap install:common
cap install:ruby
cap install:passenger

or cap install:all

cap deploy:setup

Setup production server (bare metal or vm)

For production server add server in ./ssh/config and change server name in server directive in deploy.rb. Afterwards run cap install's and cap deploy's ...

During development

Develop, commit, push and run cap deploy's iteratively

Side effects

• vm added to ./ssh/config to simplify ssh and capfile
• new github repository created (you can make it private if you wish)
• new virtual mashine project-vm created and running

Caveats

• Tested on ubuntu 12.04 server, should work at other ubuntu servers for deployment
• Still does not do anything with databases

Issues

• you should ssh to vm ssh project-vm before install:common, run sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf, set it to noninteractive/high to avoid unable to initialize frontend ... . I hope that i'll sort that out soon. Anyhow you can rerun install:common multiple times if you forget it

To do

• introduce config file for various app/vm/deployment hosts
• security, optimisation of nginx/passenger - still don't know enough to do it
• switch to ruby from bash
• do something about database management

Comments are welcome ...