Moonshine is Rails deployment and configuration management done right.

By leveraging capistrano and puppet, moonshine allows you have a working application server in 15 minutes, and be able to sanely manage it’s configuration from the comfort of your version control of choice.

• Step-by-step instructions for getting started: wiki.github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/step-by-step-instructions

• Managing server configuration with ShadowPuppet: wiki.github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/shadow-puppet-overview-and-examples

• Managing gems: wiki.github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/add-a-gem

• Managing moonshine.yml: wiki.github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/configuring-moonshineyml

• Managing additional Apache vhosts: wiki.github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/managing-additional-apache-vhosts

• Moonshine plugins: wiki.github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/moonshine-plugins

• Details about capistrano-integration: wiki.github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/capistrano

• Rails 3 notes: wiki.github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/rails-3

• A server running Ubuntu 8.10 or 10.04 LTS (Want to see your favorite platform supported? Fork Moonshine on GitHub!)

• A Rails 2.3 or Rails 3 app

• A user on this server that can:

  • Execute commands via sudo

  • Access your application’s source code repository

It’s easy enough:

$ gem install shadow_puppet isolate-scenarios
$ rake spec

isolate-scenarios is used to test against multiple versions of Rails. To run all scenarios at once:

$ isolate-scenarios rake spec

You can find more examples in the documentation and on the Wiki.

For help or general discussion, visit the Moonshine newsgroup.