Re: rails app deployment

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ez@engineyard.com>]

	I've written chef deploy resources that handle this. The only thing  
not implemented yet is rollback but that will be done soon.

http://github.com/ezmobius/chef-deploy/tree


Cheers-
-Ezra

On Apr 17, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Ian Kallen wrote:

> Sorry if this is an FAQ I've overlooked. I'm trying to get my head  
> around best practices wrt to rails deployment. To manage deployment/ 
> rollback of a rails app to a set of apache/passenger instances,  
> would you create a recipe that invokes capistrano tasks, create  
> cookbook that gems up the app, distributes and installs (how would  
> rollbacks be handled?). I see the rails cookbook on github but it's  
> not clear what the over all workflow is - if the rails code is  
> housed in git, how do you specify "deploy this new revision" or  
> "rollback to that revision"? How are db migrations handled?
> thanks!
> -Ian
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