[chef] Re: application cookbook w/ Rails app

[Denis Haskin < >]

Correct, you need the ruby do block.

I have a cookbook for my application, which has

depends "application_ruby"

in its metadata.rb, and then in its default recipe, has this (as an example):

application "zmx_app" do

  path "/srv/zmx"

  owner 'nobody'

  group 'nogroup'

  repository ' :zmxmusic/zmx2.git'

  deploy_key "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- ...etc... -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n" # note embedded newlines

  if node.chef_environment=='production'

    revision '2.26'

    action :deploy

  else

    revision 'master'

    action :force_deploy

  end

  db = "zmx_#{node.chef_environment}"

  rails do

    gems ['bundler']

    precompile_assets true

    database do

      reconnect true

      encoding 'utf8'

      username '...'

      adapter 'mysql2'

      password '...'

      database db

    end

    database_master_role "zmx_database_master"

  end

  passenger_apache2 do

  end

end

There might well be better ways to do it; I migrated up from the old cookbook.  My apache/passenger config is really done in other recipes; one of these days I'll take care of that and probably migrate to unicorn, nginx, etc.

Don't know what you're using for database.  I had to wrestle mightily with the mysql (and database?) cookbooks to get a working set of cookbooks+recipes that would come up from scratch on AWS... I'm not even convinced I've actually got that, yet, but needed to move on and get stuff done.

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Denis Haskin

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Wes Morgan < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm trying to deploy a Rails app using the new application cookbook. According to the README, I'm supposed to declare a dependency on the application_rails cookbook in the metadata.rb, but that doesn't seem to exist. Earlier in the README, application_ruby is mentioned, so I switched it to that. Do we need a documentation fix there?

Anyway, I can't quite figure out how the rails-y portion of the cookbook is supposed to be invoked. Just declaring a "depends" line in metadata.rb doesn't actually run anything, does it?

I see in the examples that there is a rails do ... end block in the application's block. Is that what triggers it?

Does anyone have a working example of deploying a Rails app w/ the new application cookbook?

Wes