Description

This cookbook is used to configure and add resource for Rails app.

Requirements

Platforms

The following platforms are supported by this cookbook, meaning that the recipes run on these platforms without error.

• Debian family (Debian, Ubuntu etc)
• Red Hat family (Redhat, CentOS, Oracle etc)

Opscode Cookbooks

• postgresql or mysql

Included cookbooks:

• database
• postgresql
• mysql
• nginx
• rvm

Attributes

Node

"rails_apps": [
    { "name": "app1", "env": ["production"] },
	{ "name": "app2", "env": ["production", "staging"] }
]

Where:

• name : is rails app data bags name
• env : array of rails app environments needed to install in this node

DataBags:

{
  "id": "app1",
  "database": "postgresql",
  "environments": [
    {
      "folder": "/var/www/app1_site",
      "name": "production",
      "database": {
	    "adapter":  "postgresql",
		"name":     "app1_databse",
		"password": "password",
		"username": "app1_username"
		},
		"ruby_version": "ruby-1.9.3-p327",
		"unicorn_workers": 1,
		"urls": [
		  "app1.example.com"
		],
		"user": {
		  "login": "app1user",
		  "ssh_keys": [
	      "ssh-rsa cLBSlmogU1S92AnFWrUqXJt0wAGx0zuFNN5KdaskdaskdaskdjsakdjaskdjaslkdjadkashjdksajdsjadkjdhasjdhaskjdhkjdhasjkdhsajkdhjkHJKHDSAKJHDJKSAHDKJSAHDdhsajdhask user@localhost",
		  "ssh-rsa cLBSlmogU1S92AnFWrUqXJt0wAGx0zuFNN5KdaskdaskdaskdjsakdjaskdjaslkdjadkashjdksajdsjadkjdhasjdhaskjdhkjdhasjkdhsajkdhjkHJKHDSAKJHDJKSAHDKJSAHDdhsajdhask user2@localhost"
		  ]
		}
	}
  ]
}

Where:

• "id": "app1" - rails app name, must be unique
• "database": "postgresql" - database backend. Can be "posgresql" or "mysql"
• "environments": [] - all rails environments what you want to describe
• "folder": "/var/www/app1_site" - main folder. When app will be stored, in this folder after execute this cookbook will be create folder 'shared' and in the future have a folder named current
• "name": "production" - name of environment
• "database": {} - describe database config
• "ruby_version": "ruby-1.9.3-p327" - what version ruby do you want install for this app
• "unicorn_workers": 1 - number of uniconr workers
• "urls": ["app1.example.com"] - hostames. It's will be append to nginx config
• "user": {} - describe user attributes for app

Usage

It's easy to use, just create data bag and include his name to rails_app. After cookbook was executed we get a system with the following:

• Install stable version rvm with included all rubies version than we describe in data bag. Rvm be installed as systemwide and ruby too.
• Creating required users.
• Creating neded foler like /var/www/app1 with included database.yml and rvm_wrapper.sh and unicorn_chef.rb - unicorn config for start rails app.
• Install nginx, creating config for this app and create init.d script for start/stop/restart/reload rails app in /etc/init.d/app1_production