https://github.com/pauldowman/chefonrails
Chef on Rails is Chef cookbooks and configuration for deploying a standard Rails app. It configures servers no matter where they're hosted: your own data centre or any type of hosting (including cloud providers such as EC2).
It configures freshly installed Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" (the latest) servers, automatically installing everything you need and deploying your Rails app.
It's based on the official Opscode cookbooks but it's preconfigured and opinionated, and numerous bugs have been fixed (for example, at the time of this writing, deploying multiple apps with the default "application" recipe doesn't work and probably hasn't ever worked
It will probably diverge significantly from the Opscode cookbooks (which IMHO are messy and buggy anyway), towards what I think is the best setup for Rails. E.g. I'll likely switch to Nginx from Apache.
I consider this very pre-release at this point, especially until I get some documentation and detailed setup instructions done, which will be coming soon...
TODO make this a lot better
- Follow the Opscode Getting Started Guide steps 1 and 2 to set up your
.chefdirectory with access to the hosted Chef server. Instead of creating your own Chef repository, you'll use this one. - Edit roles/*
- Edit data_bags/app1.json
- Rename data_bags/users/user1.json and edit it
- run this command:
rake chefonrails:update_chef_server - Start up a server instance (the following step assumes it is a staging server)
- run this command (note that it's cut off when viewed on GitHub):
knife bootstrap <server hostname> -E staging -N <node name> -r 'role[base],role[app1_database_master],role[app1_redis_master],role[app1],role[app1_worker],role[app1_cron_jobs],role[app1_run_migrations],role[run_seed_data]' -x ubuntu -P ubuntu --template-file bootstrap/ubuntu11.04-gems.erb --sudo
If you're using Amazon EC2 you'll want to select one of the stock Ubuntu EC2
AMI's and use -i <ssh-key> instead of -P ubuntu.
More info on the knife command is available here.
TODO
Do you have an improvement to make? Please submit a pull request on GitHub or a diff file.
The main author is Paul Dowman (@pauldowman).