[chef] Re: Re: Re: example using application_java?

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Jesse Campbell 
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 wrote:
> We deploy our rails apps in war/java containers using something called
> Warbler (this comes from the developers, I haven't investigated it
> myself). The dev group wants us to implement capistrano, but i feel
> like that is like saying we should use puppet for this one thing...
> we're a chef shop, do it the chef way is how I want to respond... but
> so far I haven't found what i need.
> We may continue using Bryan's tomcat6, and use his maven LWRP for
> deploying the wars... but i think even that may leave us without a
> migrations plan...
> perhaps there is a way to use some aspects of the deploy resource to
> orchestrate migrations... i'll investigate later in the week (for now
> I just need to get things running once to get the PMs off my back).

For a quick and dirty fix, you could try subscribing to the
java_remote_file resource.
I haven't actually tried this so YMMV, but it should be doable.

I'd start with something like this:



assuming you have a:

application "app-test" do
  ...
end

then in your recipe add something like:

execute "migrate app-test" do
  command "rake db:migrate" # or whatever shell command you need to run
  action :nothing
  subscribes :run, resources(:java_remote_file => "app-test")
end

Maybe it will work on the first attempt :)
If it won't, run it with chef-client -l debug and email me the log
(private email) and I'll walk you through the rest.
Once we get you set up, I'll document it for the next poor soul.

Andrea