[chef] Trying to deploy a rails app but having some issues.

[Tim Uckun < >]

Hey all I am trying to deploy a rails app. I was going to use the
application cookbook but decided to try and go at it myself.  I have
gotten to the stage where it checkout the source code and handles the
submodules but the symlinking doesn't seem to be working properly.
Specifically the log symlink. Instead of symlinking the log directory
it creates a log symlink inside of the log directory which would mean
the logs would have to be in RAILS_ROOT/log/log/production.log   Is
this a bug in the deploy resource?

BTW....

What do you guys think about putting a deploy.rb someplace and
shelling out to cap deploy?

Here is the recipe so far

app_path = "#{app[:path]}/#{app[:environment]}"

%w(bundle  cached-copy  config  log  pids  system).each do |dir|
   directory app_path do
    owner app[:user]
    group app[:user]
    mode "0755"
    action :create
    recursive true
   end

end

%w(bundle  cached-copy  config  log  pids  system).each do |dir|
   directory "#{app_path}/shared/#{dir}" do
    owner app[:user]
    group app[:user]
    mode "0755"
    action :create
    recursive true
   end

end

#has other dependencies...
deploy app_path do
  repo app[:repo]
  revision app[:revision]
  user app[:user]
  enable_submodules true
  migrate false
  migration_command "bundle exec rake db:migrate"
  environment "RAILS_ENV" => "production", "OTHER_ENV" => "foo"
  shallow_clone true
  create_dirs_before_symlink  %w{log config pids system tmp}
  action :deploy # or :rollback
  restart_command "touch tmp/restart.txt"
  scm_provider Chef::Provider::Git # is the default, for svn:
Chef::Provider::Subversion
end