Just wondering if there is simpler deployment tool for Rails apps than
Capistrano that is popular?
For simple single server hosted deployments, here's where my source
code is, don't include these files, deploy to this path on this server
type thing. To some extent I guess I'm describing something along the
lines of a Ruby FTP script with some smarts perhaps...
Or is Capistrano really the only popular well known tool out there
(with all it's config it just seems a bit overkill for me).
By the way, forgot to mention that the real strength of Moonshine for
simple setups is that the default configuration works amazingly well.
You can go from a bare Ubuntu server with only ssh to a fully-running
Rails app in around 10 minutes with maybe 5 lines of configuration.
Just wondering if there is simpler deployment tool for Rails apps than
Capistrano that is popular?
Capistrano is quite simple.
For simple single server hosted deployments, here's where my source
code is, don't include these files, deploy to this path on this server
type thing. To some extent I guess I'm describing something along the
lines of a Ruby FTP script with some smarts perhaps...
You are pretty closely describing Capistrano. Learn to use it.
Or is Capistrano really the only popular well known tool out there
(with all it's config it just seems a bit overkill for me).
It's not overkill. You don't have to use the config options that don't
apply to you.
Jarin - noting it has Capistrano under the bonnet what does Moonshine
add exactly? When/why would you use Moonshine (with Cap) over just
Capistrano by itself?
thanks
Greg
Capistrano manages the actual process of deployment. Moonshine manages
ruby, apache, your database, iptables, god, cron, sphinx, gems,
memchached, and just about everything else on your system, and it
keeps your entire system config in version control. It plays nice with
multiple rails apps on the same server, and it makes it easy to manage
multiserver deployments (with separate database servers, app servers,
etc). It handles anything that puppet does.
You rarely (if ever) have to actually ssh in to the server, and it's
basically a one stop bulletproof way to handle server provisioning and
deployment.
Jarin
P.S. Chef is another good alternative to Moonshine (as is just
deploying to Heroku), but Chef is much more complex in its
configuration and Heroku is awesome and simple beyond belief but it
does have several limitations compared to a bare VPS box or dedicated
server.