We deploy a lot of Rails applications and our developers have to solve similar problems each time during the deployment: how to run workers, how to generate crontab, how to precompile assets faster and so on. This collection of recipes helps us to solve them.

Recipe use:

• foreman + foreman_export_runitu to generate runit scripts with the Procfile
• whenever to generate crontab
• unicorn to run the application

It also consider that you use system wide rbenv on the server.

gem 'capistrano_evrone_recipes', :require => false
require "capistrano_evrone_recipes/capistrano"

Capistrano default variables:

logger.level                   = Capistrano::Logger::DEBUG
default_run_options[:pty]      = true
ssh_options[:forward_agent]    = true
set :bundle_cmd,                 "rbenv exec bundle"
set :bundle_flags,               "--deployment --quiet --binstubs --shebang ruby-local-exec"
set :rake,                       -> { "#{bundle_cmd} exec rake" }
set :keep_releases,              7
set :scm,                        "git"
set :user,                       "deploy"
set :deploy_via,                 :unshared_remote_cache
set :copy_exclude,               [".git"]
set :repository_cache,           -> { "#{deploy_to}/shared/#{application}.git" }
set :normalize_asset_timestamps, false

To enable silent mode, add ENV['CAP_SILENT_MODE'] before the require 'capistrano_evrone_recipes/capistrano' in your Capfile

Capfile example:

set :repository, "git@github.com:..."
set :application, "my_cook_application"

task :production do
  role  :web,     "web.example.com"
  role  :app,     "app.example.com"
  role  :crontab, "app.example.com"
  role, :db,      "db.example.com", :primary => true
  role, :worker,  "workers.example.com"
end

task :staging do
  server "stage.example.com", :web, :app, :crontab, :db, :worker
end

As you can see, we use use roles to bind the tasks, and there are some additions to roles and additional roles:

web compiles assets if content of app/assets was changed since last deploy (add FORCE=1 to force the assets compilation)

app all files from shared/config is being symlinked to current/config like:

shared/config/database.yml            -> current/config/database.yml
shared/config/settings/production.yml -> current/config/settings/production.yml

crontab generates crontab with whenever gem, only if the content of config/schedule.rb was changed (add FORCE=1 to force the crontab generation)

db run migrations only if db/migrate was changed (add FORCE=1 to force migrations or SKIP_MIGRATION=1 to skip them)

worker Procfile exports runit configs to deploy_to/application/services

On deploy:restart unicorn and runit workers is being restarted.

You can use some extra cap tasks:

• rails:console to launch rails console on remote server
• rails:dbconsole to launch rails dbconsole on remote server
• login to open SSH session under user deploy and switch catalog to Capistrano's current_path

Important

To run succesfully together with system wide rbenv, all you tasks in Procfile must be started with rbenv exec

Please read Code of Conduct and Contributing Guidelines for submitting pull requests to us.

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

• Dmitry Galinsky - Initial work

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.