[chef] Re: Question about the application cookbook

[Ash Berlin < >]

On 8 Sep 2010, at 20:58, Ash Berlin wrote:
> So I'm converting my hand rolled deployment resource to use the application 
> cookbook, and I've got a question about it. Or rather I'd like to point out 
> that the rails and unicorn recipes are inconsistent in how they deal with 
> attributes.
> 
> The rails recipe does this:
> 
>  node[:apps][app['id']][node.app_environment][:run_migrations]
> 
> The unicorn one on the other hand does
> 
>  node.default[:unicorn][:worker_timeout] = 60
>  node.default[:unicorn][:preload_app] = false
>  node.default[:unicorn][:worker_processes] = [node[:cpu][:total].to_i * 4, 
> 8].min
>  ...
> 
> Now the unicorn config is node global and doesn't let you tweak things 
> based on the app. Should it?
> 
>  node.default[:apps][app['id']][:unicorn][:worker_timeout] = 60
>  ...

This should be 

   node[:apps][app['id']][node.app_environment][:unicorn][:worker_timeout]

to be properly consistent.

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -ash