This script sets up a Rails server stack on Slicehost, running Ubuntu Inprepid
Includes updated gems, ImageMagick, and setup configs as specified in Slicehost articles for Ubuntu Intrepid
- Ubuntu Development Tools
- Git
- Apache
- Passenger
- MySQL
- Ruby 1.8.6
- Rubygems 1.3.1
- Rails 2.3.2
- IMageMagick
The following gems are installed:
- radiant
- flickr_fu
- haml
- mislav-will_paginate
- fastercsv
- RedCloth
- rmagick
- xml-magic
- json
- thoughtbot-paperclip
Also configures Apache for use with Passenger, as well setting up a vhost container for the rails app.
For more details, checkout config/deploy.rb
- Slicehost slice running Ubuntu Intrepid
- Basic slice setup, http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/11/28/ubuntu-intrepid-setup-page-1
- Recommended that you upgrade the system before starting:
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude full-upgrade
You should only need to modify the variables at the top of the deploy recipe in config/deploy.rb
set :application, "mydomain.com" # The vhost container name (e.g. domain)
set :repository, "[email protected]:USERNAME/REPONAME.git" # GitHub repo where this deploy lives
set :user, "username" # Username of your slice
set :slice, "xx.xx.xx.xx" # The IP address of your slice
The two lines below probably only need to be used if you are also deploying your app from this same recipe
I only use this recipe for setting up my server, and is not contained in the app’s repo itself
set :repository, "[email protected]:USERNAME/REPONAME.git"
set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/#{application}"
You can, of course, use this recipe as the primary deploy.rb, where all your cap commands access the declared namespaces. This would allow you to setup the recipe on a per project basis.
As an alternative, you can place this recipe in your app alongside the dev, staging, and production recipes using the capistrano-ext gem, which would allow you to issue cap commands on a per environment basis. In this case, you could name this recipe slicehost.rb. Be sure to declare this recipe in the top-level deploy.rb file.
To run the recipe in it’s entirety, issue the command cap slicehost:setup_env.
To see all the available commands, issue the command cap -T.
Credit to Matt Swasey of Viget Labs for the idea, based on his blog entry
http://www.viget.com/extend/building-an-environment-from-scratch-with-capistrano-2
Copyright © 2009 Brandon Calloway, released under the MIT License