minecart

Opinionated fpm wrapper.

Generate deb files from ruby web apps while keeping capistrano compatible directory hierarchy.

usage

./minecart.py <manifest>

example manisfest

{
	"name": "myapp",
	"maintainer": "email@example.com",
	"vendor": "someone",
	"url": "https://github.com/jacoelho/myapp",
	"install_directory": "/var/www/",
	"user": "rails",
	"configuration_files": [
		"config/application.yml",
		"config/database.yml"
	],
	"install_deps": [],
	"build_deps": ["libpq-dev"],
	"instructions": [
		"git clone --depth=1 https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}:x-oauth-basic@github.com/jacoelho/myapp.git .",
		"rm -fr .git/",
		"bundle install --deployment --without development:test"
	]
}

this package will be installed in /var/www/myapp/releases/<date> and symlink to /var/www/myapp/current

the current ruby and bundler will be added to the package install dependencies.

shell env is available during build.

dependencies

python3 installed

faq

why json

it is on python standard library