craigslistpoetry-api-chef

Forked from https://github.com/intercity/chef-repo. Special thanks to them!

These collection of chef recipes:

• install MySQL for databases
• set up the craigslistpoetry-api project with the proper directory structure for capitstrano deploys.
• Set's up cron jobs to email admin users an activity email, send out tweets, and perform daily backups.
• Includes configuration management for all sensitive API keys and passwords for various external services.

Getting started

The following paragraphs will guide you to set up your own server to host Ruby on Rails applications.

1. Set up this repository

Clone the repository onto your own workstation. For example in your ~/Code directory:

$ cd ~/Code
$ git clone git://github.com/msquitieri/craigslistpoetry-api-chef.git

Run bundle:

$ bundle install

Run Librarian install:

$ librarian-chef install

2. Install your server

Edit the nodes/api.json file and set up all of the configuration of database passwords, etc. When that is done, just run:

knife solo bootstrap USER@HOST_IP nodes/api.json

This will install chef on your server and run it for the first time.

If you want to just do a chef run on the server, run:

knife solo cook USER@HOST_IP nodes/api.json

3. Deploy your application

Change the host IP in the config/deploy/production.rb, and run bundle exec cap production deploy

That's it! The application should have been deployed.

Extra: Setting up Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate

Chef will automatically include the certbot. All you need to do is run the command:

sudo certbot --nginx

and follow the prompts. A cron will automatically trigger the renewal every 60 days.

Related Repos

Please see related repos to this project:

• craigslistpoetry-frontend repo, which is written in Ember
• craigslistpoetry-api repo, a Ruby on Rails application to retreive poems and their data.