Speedy is a utility for Phusion Passenger / ModRails, specifically develop to automate the process of creating virtual host and deployments in development environment.
gem install speedy
You may need to uninstall the older version if it’s installed.
gem uninstall speedy
To deploy a Rails application first you need to open the terminal and navigate to particular application root folder and type
sudo speedy deploy
As default this command will deploy the application with the root folder name.
E.g. If your application folder name is ‘example’, this will create the virtual host as ‘example.local’.
If you wish, you can explicitly specify a name for the virtual host when you run the deploy command.
sudo speedy deploy custom_name.local
sudo speedy deploy <root dir name>.local sudo speedy deploy
Are equivalent.
You can use speedy to do clean Apache – ModRails configuration.
Step 01: Install Passenger gem
sudo gem install passenger
Step 02 : Install the Apache module
passenger-install-apache2-module
Step 03: Copy the “Load module” configuration in to the Clipboard.
Step 04: Now without doing any further configurations install Speedy
sudo gem install speedy
Step 05: Tell the speedy to do the clean Passenger configurations
sudo speedy config-passenger
Step 06: Speedy will open a blank file in vi editor. Paste the “Load module” configurations save and exit (Unix command => “ :wq”).
That’s it. In this process Speedy keeps spate the passenger configs without mixing them main server configuration file like apache2.conf (in Linux) files.
Once you install the latest version of Passenger, just run the same command.
sudo speedy config-passenger
Speedy will open the same configuration file. Just change the version of the Passenger, save and exit.
To view all available commands, run it with the --help or -h option.
speedy --help speedy -h
This project can be found on github at the following URL.
github.com/mohamedaslam/speedy
If you wish the generators behaved differently, please consider forking the project and modifying to your heart’s content.