Sinatra App Cookbook

Super simple chef cookbook to deploy a sinatra app from a remote git repository.

Description

This cookbook bootstraps an ubuntu server with:

• Apache
• Passenger (via Brightbox PPA repository)
• Git
• Sinatra

Requirements

Chef

Tested on 0.10.18 but should work fine on older versions too.

Platform

This has been tested using a stock Ubuntu 11.04 AMI without error. Given it uses the brightbox PPA to install passenger it won't work on non-debian based distos (i.e. CentOS)

Cookbooks

This cookbook relies on the following additional community cookbooks:

• apache2
• apt
• git

Attributes

The following attributes must be specified in your roles or environments in order to use the cookbook.

• node['sinatra_app']['repository'] - The git URL for the repository you wish to deploy. e.g. git://github.com/codesplicer/test-sinatra-app.git
• node['sinatra_app']['branch'] - The branch you wish to deploy. Default is master.
• node['sinatra_app']['deploy_dir'] - The directory you wish to deploy to. e.g. e.g. /home/sites/awesome-app
• node['sinatra_app']['docroot'] - The path where your code will run from. Will usually be your deploy directory with /current at the end. e.g. /home/sites/awesome-app/current
• node['sinatra_app']['server_name'] - The URL you wish to host your app at. This sets the vhost server_name attribute and filename.

Usage

Using this cookbook is pretty straightforward. Heres an example of a basic role:

name "Appserver"
description "Servers that run our awesome sinatra-powered app"
run_list(
  "recipe['sinatra_app::webserver']",
  "recipe['sinatra_app::deploy']"
)
default_attributes({
  "sinatra_app" => {
    "repository" => "git://github.com/codesplicer/test-sinatra-app.git",
    "branch" => "master",
    "deploy_dir" => '/home/ubuntu/newyork-newyork',
    "docroot" => '/home/ubuntu/newyork-newyork/current',
    "server_name" => 'newyork.example.com'
  }
})

License and Author

• Author:: Vik Bhatti ([email protected])