Packaging rvm stuff for deployment

The overal goal of this project is to help with deploying ruby apps. Solved here is the problem of packaging an rvm-provided ruby. Steps in general:

• Forget about worrying about old versions of ruby.
• Package up whatever version of ruby with this project
• Package up your application (use bundler to vendor in the gem dependencies)
• Deploy both to production.

'package.sh' packages 'rvm' for deployment if you want it, not required to deploy.

'package-ruby.sh' packages any ruby you choose to install with rvm.

Requires fpm to package things. https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

Notes on deployment

Because rvm assumes installing to $HOME/.rvm/stuff, there's a bunch of hackery this package-ruby.sh does to 'undo' the assumptions.

For example, if you package ruby 1.9.2, the resulting package will want to install to /opt/somewhere, where rvm believes it is installed to somewhere like this:

% readelf -a ruby | grep 'Library'
0x000000000000000f (RPATH)              Library rpath: [/home/jls/rvm-packaging/build//opt/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib]

Obviously this is wrong. That path won't exist when we install the package to production. Until I figure out the right way to solve this, I've worked around it by having a 'runner' script that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
ruby="ruby-1.9.2-p180"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/rvm/rubies/${ruby}/lib 
export GEM_HOME=./vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/ 
export RUBYLIB=/opt/rvm/rubies/${ruby}/lib/ruby/1.9.1:/opt/rvm/rubies/${ruby}/lib/ruby/1.9.1/x86_64-linux/:./lib 
PATH=/opt/rvm/rubies/${ruby}/bin:${PATH}
ruby "$@"

Then to run a script with our rvm-packaged thing, I do:

run.sh myscript.rb ...

Example running with bundler deployment

These steps assume you already built the ruby package you wanted from the examples further down on this page.

Assuming you wrote an app and ran 'bundle install --deployment' and are now ready to deploy using ruby 1.9.2:

% GEM_PATH=vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/ /opt/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby your-app.rb

Example packaging jruby

% bash package-ruby.sh jruby
...
RVM not found; installing now to /home/jls/projects/rvm-packaging/build//opt/rvm
...
WARN: jruby jruby-1.6.0 is not installed.
To install do: 'rvm install jruby-1.6.0'
jruby-1.6.0 - #fetching
jruby-1.6.0 - #downloading jruby-bin-1.6.0, this may take a while depending on your connection...
jruby-1.6.0 - #installing to /home/jls/projects/rvm-packaging/build//opt/rvm/rubies/jruby-1.6.0
...
patching rvm scripts to remove path '/home/jls/projects/rvm-packaging/build/'
Packaging up jruby-1.6.0
Created /home/jls/projects/rvm-packaging/rvm-jruby_1.6.0-1_amd64.deb

% sudo dpkg -i rvm-jruby_1.6.0-1_amd64.deb
...
% /opt/rvm/wrappers/jruby-1.6.0/ruby -e 'puts [RUBY_PLATFORM, RUBY_VERSION].join("-")'
java-1.8.7
% /opt/rvm/wrappers/jruby-1.6.0/ruby --1.9 -e 'puts [RUBY_PLATFORM, RUBY_VERSION].join("-")'
java-1.9.2

Example packaging ruby 1.9.2

% bash package-ruby.sh ruby-1.9.2
...
ruby-1.9.2-p180 - #compiling
...
patching rvm scripts to remove path '/home/jls/projects/rvm-packaging/build/'
Packaging up ruby-1.9.2p180
Created /home/jls/projects/rvm-packaging/rvm-ruby-1.9.2p180_1.9.2p180-1_amd64.deb

% sudo dpkg -i rvm-ruby-1.9.2p180_1.9.2p180-1_amd64.deb
...

% /opt/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [x86_64-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /opt/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.8
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /opt/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /opt/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180
     - /opt/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org/