rubystack Cookbook

My skeleton cookbook for provisioning rails apps

This cookbook makes your favorite breakfast sandwich.

Requirements

Platforms

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Chef

• Chef 12.2.0

Cookbooks

• database_sl
• rvm_sl
• phussionpassenger

Data bags

Depends on data bag users and data bag item deployer.

# data_bags/users/deployer.json.sample

{
  "id": "deployer",
  "home": "/home/deployer",
  "password": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789",
  "shell": "/bin/bash"
}

Generate new password with:

openssl passwd -1 "theplaintextpassword"

Attributes

rubystack::default

See attributes/default.rb for default values.

• node['rubystack']['application'] - The application name
• node['rubystack']['rails_env'] - The rails environment
• node['rubystack']['deployer']['username'] - The deployer user name
• node['rubystack']['deployer']['password'] - The deployer user password

rubystack::database

See attributes/database.rb for default values.

• node['rubystack']['db']['name'] - The database name
• node['rubystack']['db']['hostname'] - The hostname of the database
• node['rubystack']['db']['username'] - The username of the database
• node['rubystack']['db']['password'] - The password of the database

rubystack::webserver

See attributes/webserver.rb for default values.

• node['rubystack']['webserver']['name'] - The server name
• node['rubystack']['webserver']['document_root'] - The document root of the virtualhost

Usage

rubystack::default

Just include rubystack in your node run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[rubystack]"
  ]
}

Sharing

knife cookbook site share "rubystack" "Applications"

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write your change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Authors: David Saenz Tagarro