Rails stack installation

Scripts for Sprinkle, the provisioning tool. Based on Passenger stack and Yummy sprinkles scripts.

How to get your sprinkle on:

• Get one of the following 64-bit Linux servers (physical or virtual)
  • Ubuntu (tested with 10.4)
  • RedHat or CentOS (tested with 5.4) with disabled SELinux
• Install/enable ssh server on remote server
• Create yourself a user, add yourself to the /etc/sudoers file
• On Ubuntu set proxy server for apt-get if necessary (in /etc/apt/apt.conf)
• Set your server dns name / ip address in deploy.rb (config/deploy.rb.example provided)
• Set username in config/deploy.rb if it isn't the same as your local machine (config/deploy.rb.example provided)
• Create config/install.rb and specify packages that you want to install (config/install.rb.example provided)
• Create config/stack/oracle/tnsnames.ora if oracle_client package will be installed (config/stack/oracle/tnsnames.ora.example provided)

From your local system (from the rails-stack directory), run:

sprinkle -c -s config/install.rb

If you have created configuration for several sites then run installation for specific site with:

sprinkle -c -s config/install.rb SITE=site_name

After you've waited for everything to run, you should have a provisioned server. Use Capistrano to do further application specific deployment.

Other things you should probably consider:

• Close everything except for port 80 and 22
• Disallow password logins and use a passphrased RSA key

Wait, what does all this install?

• Apache (Apt)
• Ruby Enterprise (Source) [includes rubygems]
• Passenger (Rubygem)
• Oracle Instant Client
• Subversion (Apt) and Git (Apt)

Prerequisites on local machine (from which Sprinkle installer will be run)

• Ruby
• capistrano gem
• sprinkle gem
• erubis gem