eycap
Description
The Engine Yard capistrano tasks are for use specifically with Engine Yard Managed services. But can be used as examples for building other tasks as well.
Requirements
-
Capistrano >= 2.2.0
-
NOTE: When using a git repository use Capistrano >= 2.5.3.
Install
Use your Gemfile
and bundler
to both document and install the eycap
gem to your application. We also recommend the following gems to be configured along side eycap
. Add these to your Gemfile
:
group :development, :test do
gem 'eycap', :require => false
gem 'capistrano', '~> 2.15'
gem 'net-ssh', '~> 2.7.0'
end
Then run bundle install to install the eycap
and other gem(s).
$ bundle install
Then in your deploy.rb
file you'll need to add the following require statement to the begininng of the file:
require "eycap/recipes"
Usage
Configuration
Your initial deploy.rb will be provided for you when your servers are provisioned on Engine Yard Managed. In order to deploy your application, you can go to the RAILS_ROOT
folder and run:
$ capify .
This generates the Capfile
and the config/deploy.rb
file for you. You'll replace the config/deploy.rb
file with the deploy.rb
given to you by Engine Yard.
For deploying Rails 3.1 or greater apps using the asset pipeline read more on the linked page.
Setup restart server
Mongrel is the default server, to override this default you'll need to define the following in your deploy.rb
file:
namespace :deploy do
task :restart, :roles => :app do
# mongrel.restart
end
task :spinner, :roles => :app do
# mongrel.start
end
task :start, :roles => :app do
# mongrel.start
end
task :stop, :roles => :app do
# mongrel.stop
end
end
Replace the commented out with your server (passenger, unicorn, thin, puma, etc.) and then it will override the default of mongrel.
Deploying to Environment
To ensure your environments are ready to deploy, check on staging.
$ cap staging deploy:check
This will determine if all requirements are met to deploy. Sometimes if the default folders are not setup you may be able to repair by running:
$ cap staging deploy:setup
If you cannot get deploy:check
to pass, please open a new support ticket and let us know.
Now you're ready to do a test deploy.
Optionally, cap deploy:cold
will run your migrations and start (instead of restart) your app server.
$ cap staging deploy:cold
Or if you have already dumped a copy of your data to staging or do not want to run migrations you can simply do a deploy.
$ cap staging deploy
And to do all this on production, just change the environment name and you'll be all set.
$ cap production deploy
Eycap Commands
For a list of all available commands, run:
$ cap -T
This will show you not only the default capistrano commands but also the ones you get by including the eycap gem.
Custom binaries path
In rare cases (unicorn
/ sphinx
) it is required to set custom path for binaries when using
development versions of scripts. It is as easy as:
set :engineyard_bin, "/engineyard/custom"
The default is /engineyard/bin
and is just fine in normal deployment.
Pull Requests
If you'd like to contribute to the eycap gem please create a fork, then send a pull request and a member of the eycap team will review it.
Issues
When you run into a problem please check the issues to see if one has been reported. If not, please report the issue and we'll get to work on fixing it.
License
Copyright (c) Engine Yard
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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