Comments on: Closing in on The Dream: “one-click-to-deploy Rails apps”

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:43:37 +0000

@Melvin – in my rails-template I’ve now extracted the deploy.rb script out into a local “deploy” rails generator which creates a fully-functional Capfile (for me) with my deprec + github settings. These could be changed to any other setup nicely here. I guess you’d remove the slicehost setup too.

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:46:51 +0000

Hey Dr. Nic,

Here’s a different approach to deployment using Moonshine: http://railsnotes.com/161-rails-server-setup/

Overall, from start to deployment takes me about 15minutes so it’s fairly painless. In the article I do only focus on server setup & deployment… so the authentication stuff will need to be done using a Rails template or something.

PS: Say hi to Radar for me.

~ mel

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:20:53 +0000

@Dan – hmm, the ever-unhelpful activation attempts of two gems. Hard to debug the cause and often an irrelevant error.

If you don’t need activesupport 2.3.1 then uninstall it (and all the rails 2.3.1 gems) as they have been patched in 2.3.2

By: DanNewman

DanNewman — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:49:18 +0000

get to the point of runnint twitter cmds …and get thie error:

can’t activate activesupport (= 2.3.1, runtime), already activated activesupport-2.3.2 (Gem::Exception)

very cool stuff… here looking forward to getting it working.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:02:09 +0000

@Brian – this is correct; the DOMAIN=xxx.com is setting an environment variable to override some defaults. You might prefer to just create your own template and change the defaults for yourself.

By: Brian M

Brian M — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:11:05 +0000

Hi Dr. Nic,

I’m having trouble parsing the 3-line block of commands that begins with “cd ~/Sites”. Did it word wrap in the wrong places? I don’t understand how a command would start with DOMAIN= and then have “rails -m” in the middle.

Thanks.

By: Matt Conway

Matt Conway — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:10:28 +0000

If you’re looking for something similar for deploying to ec2, I’ve written a capistrano extension that makes it fairly easy: http://wiki.github.com/wr0ngway/rubber

The major benefit of this framework is that its pretty easy to get up and running, yet scaling up to multiple instances requires very little additional effort.

I’m currently using it to manage 20+ instances for my dayjob, and I know a number of other consultants find it useful for firing up new setups for their clients.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:09:14 +0000

@Charlie – hmm, I’m having no luck reproducing that problem. I uninstalled both slicehost-tools gems and thor, then reinstalled booster-slicehost-tools and slicehost-slice list worked.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:02:23 +0000

@Anton since its ultimately just a recipe/template you can/should copy + paste it into your own and then insert your preferred deprec-alternative to get everything up and running. Or instead of mysql you could add in a postgresql database.yml etc (the only reason my script generates its own database.yml is that the default rails one includes sock config which is invalid on a deprec installed slice).

Let me know if you get thru the tutorial and get some simple twitter-auth apps up and running! I’ll add any “testimonials” into the article above.

By: Charlie Park

Charlie Park — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:57:56 +0000

@Dr Nic -

For some reason, it didn’t include the uhlenbrock bit. It *did* include wycats-thor-0.9.8 when I ran gem install booster-slicehost-tools. But until I got the uhlenbrock in there, it just returned -bash: slicehost-slice: command not found.