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

[Sahil R Cooner < >]

Tim,

I have written a RoR application deployment cookbook. I would say writing your own is the best way to go.

Have you considered creating the log directory in the target application directory inside a shared folder and then symlinking that in to the actual deployment directory, that seemed to work out best. That way you can have the logs persist over deployments, and have the system use log management software to purge older logs or compress them etc…?

Thanks.

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Sahil R Cooner

On Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:

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