Deployment on Amazon EC2? posted by Tom Carter @ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:19 -0000

Tom Carter — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:19 -0000

I agree. A concise explanation would be a wonderful improvement over the mess of cobbled together forums and blog posts.

No mention of ssh port in deploy.rb? posted by Aditya Sanghi @ Thu, 15 May 2008 13:51:58 -0000

Aditya Sanghi — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:51:58 -0000

Hi Guys,

I would request that you add notes somewhere to mention how to modify the deploy.rb file in case you take the advice given in the book to modify the sshd default port on the production server.

It took me a short (but frustrating few minutes) to google and find the ssh_options directive. Where is the Capistrano documentation anyway? I hoped this book would delve a lot deeper into Capistrano.

Thanks heaps!

Still struggling with a perfect deployment setup!

Cheers,
Aditya

User Permission Mgmt on Production Server posted by Aditya Sanghi @ Thu, 15 May 2008 09:26:05 -0000

Aditya Sanghi — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:26:05 -0000

Hi Guys,

As I understood from the book, the app is deployed with user “ezra” / group “ezra” on the production server. Is this the accepted fair setup?

We have multiple people who have the responsibility for deployment and would ideally use their own passwords for deployment.

Can we have some explanations/suggestions for this group-use setup along with subsequent changes to the deploy.rb file and config files?

Cheers,
Aditya

Deploying from Windows -- Local SSH Configuration for Capistrano posted by Aditya Sanghi @ Thu, 15 May 2008 08:53:55 -0000

Aditya Sanghi — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:53:55 -0000

Hi Guys,

I’ve had no problems setting up my ssh keys on Windows using PuTTY.

My question is more towards setting up ssh keys for setting up they keys for use with Capistrano (deploy.rb) and Section 4.4 Configuring the Server.

I’ve downloaded OpenSSH for Windows. Using “ssh-keygen -t dsa” i’ve generated a passphrased public/private key pair also which lives in c:\.ssh folder.
I’m able to use “ssh mylogin@myhost -p 8888” to login to my server from windows with the passphrase.

How and what would be the equivalent of having a passwordless entry using ssh-agent on page 83 of the book for windows?

What setting would be required in deploy.rb to use this?

Cheers,
Aditya

monit for Windows? posted by Brian Hogan @ Mon, 05 May 2008 19:28:57 -0000

Brian Hogan — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:28:57 -0000

@Jack Johnson:

I’ve not been asked to add anything about that to the book. There are some ways to do that, though. There are some easy ways to do it though…. Some people have been successful with IPmonitor (http://www.solarwinds.com/products/ipmonitor/). You could use the freeware xcmd.exe program to run commands on remote machines too, so you could easily roll your own monitor. I’ve done that in the past too.

Deployment on Amazon EC2? posted by samuel spitzer @ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:10:19 -0000

samuel spitzer — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:10:19 -0000

Same here – please get going on this…

Locking down plug-ins and gems posted by Brian Doll @ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:51:13 -0000

Brian Doll — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:51:13 -0000

DOH! This is already documented in the errata for the book.

http://books.pragprog.com/titles/fr_deploy/errata

Locking down plug-ins and gems posted by Brian Doll @ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:08:20 -0000

Brian Doll — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:08:20 -0000

As some others have noted, there may likely be some sections of this book that are effected by differences in Rails 2. I just bought the book an hour ago or so, but I just stumbled on what might be the first of such instances and thought I’d bring it up.

In “Locking Down Plug-ins and Gems”, the advice is to pull the contents of a gem’s lib directory out into the vendor directory of a Rails app. In Rails 2 (and prior, for some) I would guess that the correct advice is to commit the gems under /vendor/gems, such that you may have /vendor/gems/foo-1.2.3 and /vendor/gems/bar-1.2.2.

This is made possible by the environment.rb load_paths configuration which iterates over /vendor/gems directories and includes each of their lib directories during startup. Additionally, this makes for a much cleaner /vendor directory, with more clarity around what files belong to what gem.

Looking forward to reading the rest of the book!
cheers,
b

Slightly bummed... posted by Marc @ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:06:01 -0000

Marc — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:06:01 -0000

To be honest: I feel the same. Every release brings more bugs and questions. Since today we were not able to deploy our app with this book, because it refers to old versions of every essential part of RoR and if you mix it up with the ones used in the book you get really messed up with everything. I think google is a better way than using this book …

Slightly bummed... posted by Jack Johnson @ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:32:53 -0000

Jack Johnson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:32:53 -0000

I’m feeling bummed, too. I know the book has been deployed, but I guess I was expecting at least some sort of monit or god process watching the posts here… The lack of any response at all is disappointing.

Slightly bummed... posted by Ram Ravichandran @ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:40:21 -0000

Ram Ravichandran — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:40:21 -0000

I am slightly bummed by the lack of responses from the authors in this forum. Also, I don’t see the ”.... ALso included is setting up your own Xen installation …” claimed in Ezra’s blog. Is B3.0 the final version or am I missing something here?

Rails deployment stability posted by Jack Johnson @ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:17:13 -0000

Jack Johnson — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:17:13 -0000

Hmmm… Not sure how to interpret the total silence here. Have I asked the wrong question somehow? Have I asked in the wrong place? I thought the forum for a book on deploying rails seemed like a natural spot, but maybe everybody else is here to learn about deployment issues before they try it, just like me…

If anybody reading this has put a rails app into production, I’d appreciate any deployment stories you can share. (I’m assuming the authors have some successful deployments under their belts, so deployment stability comments are welcome from you, too! :^D )

Thanks,

Jack

Deployment on Amazon EC2? posted by Frank @ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:17:55 -0000

Frank — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:17:55 -0000

I’d like to add my vote for a chapter on deploying on ec2

Rails deployment stability posted by Jack Johnson @ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:34:48 -0000

Jack Johnson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:34:48 -0000

More or less a follow-up to my post looking for a Windows equivalent to monit… Does anybody have any experiences with Rails’ deployment stability they’d care to share? I never heard about the memory leaks, need to restart mongrels, etc. before I read Zed Shaw’s rant, but now it seems like it was common knowledge to everybody but me. How big / common a problem is this for those of you deploying real apps? (As you can probably guess, I haven’t deployed any Rails apps yet, and I’d like to get some background from those who have been there, done that…)

Thanks,

Jack

monit for Windows? posted by Jack Johnson @ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:21:48 -0000

Jack Johnson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:21:48 -0000

The book gives a lot of useful advice for deploying on Windows, but none for monitoring and restarting mongrels a la monit. Since from what I’ve been reading recently needing to restart non-responsive or ill-behaved mongrels seems fairly common, I’d really like to have some Windows equivalent of monit. Does anybody know of such a beast? Is this something that can be addressed in the final version of the book, or is it too late for that?

Thanks,

Jack

Monit and Mongrel posted by Frank @ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:16:25 -0000

Frank — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:16:25 -0000

I’ve been able to come up with a solution to this problem. The solution is to add the following line to /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails

ENV[‘PATH’] = ”#{ENV[‘PATH’]}:/usr/local/bin”;

and then to have the stop/start commands in the monit config look as follows:

start program = ”/usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::start -C /home/virtual/rails/myapp/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml—clean—only 5050”

stop program = ”/usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::stop -C /home/virtual/rails/myapp/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml—only 5050”

This isn’t really an ideal solution as my monit monitoring will break whenever I upgrade the mongrel_cluster gem.

Monit and Mongrel posted by Frank @ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:05:02 -0000

Frank — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:05:02 -0000

I’ve tried many different ways of specifying the start and stop commands in monit. For example, I just tried this:

start program = ”/usr/bin/env PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH} mongrel_rails cluster::start -C /home/virtual/rails/myapp/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml—clean—only 5050”

stop program = ”/usr/bin/env PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH} mongrel_rails cluster::stop -C /home/virtual/rails/myapp/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml—only 5050”

and still the monit log file reports:

[ Mar 14 11:43:07] info : ‘mongrel_myapp_5050’ stop: /usr/bin/env
[ Mar 14 11:43:37] error : ‘mongrel_myapp_5050’ failed to stop

I am able to run those stop start commands manually from a shell in which I set the initial path to be the same one that monit sets (/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin) so I have no idea why it doesn’t work through monit.

Is there anyway to actually debug monit and see what its actually executing and see what error message it might encounter when trying to stop or start a program?

Monit and Mongrel posted by Frank @ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:48:26 -0000

Frank — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:48:26 -0000

I recently picked up the beta version of Deploying Rails Applications and I’m trying to use the information in the book to setup monit to monitor and restart my cluster of mongrels.

I can get monit to monitor my mongrels but I haven’t been able to get monit to be able to stop or start my mongrels. The problem seems to be related to the spartan path that monit provides when starting or stopping programs. That path is PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

And on my particular FreeBSD 6.3 system I cannot run the mongrel_rails command successfully unless /usr/local/bin is part of my path. If I run mongrel_rails without /usr/local/bin in my path I am rewarded with this error:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27: command not found:

Anyone else encounter this? Any ideas on how to solve it?

Restarting mongrel_cluster with capistrano posted by Ryan Lundie @ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:21:16 -0000

Ryan Lundie — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:21:16 -0000

Hi,

From what i have read, the book gives examples with capistrano, but only using a single mongrel instance.

What is the proper way to restart a mongrel cluster for a single application if I have multiple applications on the same server?

Thanks!
Ryan Lundie

SSL + Nginx + Mongrel posted by Philip Ratzsch @ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:56:35 -0000

Philip Ratzsch — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:56:35 -0000

I haven’t read through it, but the Nginx documentation is located at http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpSslModule?highlight=%28ssl%29

I’m messing around with Nginx myself – mind if I ask how you’re using it?

Reverse Proxy and hard-coded URLs in Flex posted by Brian Hogan @ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:28:08 -0000

Brian Hogan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:28:08 -0000

Sorry but there’s no way to handle that using the method outlined in this book. The documentation for the reverse_proxy_fix plugin specifically says it doesn’t work with hard-coded URLs. You need a true reverse proxy engine with html rewriting enabled, and even that’s not going to be able to open up your swf files to replace URLS. Perhaps you can pass the full server path to your Flex app in a variable and dynamically construct your links in the Flex app? I know of no other way.

Rails on IIS posted by Brian Hogan @ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:38 -0000

Brian Hogan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:38 -0000

There’s a chapter on deploying to Windows. We don’t discuss running Rails within IIS but we discuss how to make Rails work with an existing IIS installation by proxying requests through IIS to a Rails application running on a different port.

Deployment on Amazon EC2? posted by Tomasz Korzeniowski @ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:25:10 -0000

Tomasz Korzeniowski — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:25:10 -0000

I fully agree. It would be really nice to have short chapter about deployment on EC2+S3 stack.

Deploying a Web Based Visual F/X Service posted by Douglass Turner @ Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:47:14 -0000

Douglass Turner — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:47:14 -0000

Hello,

I’ve got a general architectural, software pattern type question regarding a Web service I’m interested in building. I’ve got a large, legacy 3D/2D rendering and visual f/x system written in C++ that I’d like to make available as a Web service. Of course I want to use Rails. Does anyone have any experience wrapping an app and exposing via Rails? Is there a particular Rails pattern that I should study?

Thanks in advance.

-Doug

How to serve svn posted by Marc @ Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:25:20 -0000

Marc — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:25:20 -0000

So, am I too stupid to find it or isn’t there anyhing about serving a svn for pubilc access (needed for capistrano, i think so). On page 99 in your deploy.rb example suddenly an url shows up with the svn in it although you say nothing about how you got it up and running?

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