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

[Jesse Campbell < >]

I'll give that a try in the next week or two and see how far I get. We
have a deadline for go-live, and migration doesn't have to be ready
for the first deploy, so I'll have to wait until things are up before
I can revisit it.

Thanks!!!

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Andrea Campi
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> 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).
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> 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:
>
>
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> assuming you have a:
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> 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