torquebox-remote-deployer

The torquebox-remote-deployer is a Ruby Gem for deploying TorqueBox .knob files to a remote TorqueBox server. It allows you to deploy your entire application as a single file, but still be able to run Rake and other jobs on the server.

First, you'll need to set up your TorqueBox application for Rake. Then run gem install torquebox-remote-deployer or add the gem to your Gemfile:

gem "torquebox-remote-deployer"

Once the Gem is installed, you'll have a few new Rake tasks:

rake torquebox:remote:deploy              # Deploy the local archive file t...
rake torquebox:remote:exec[cmd]           # Execute Ruby commands against t...
rake torquebox:remote:stage               # Upload this application to the ...
rake torquebox:remote:stage:check         # Verify that the archive file ma...
rake torquebox:remote:stage:deploy        # Deploy the staged archive file ...
rake torquebox:remote:undeploy            # Undeploy the archive file to th...

Before using these, you'll need to configure your remote server by creating a config/torquebox_remote.rb file in your project. This file will be similar to config/torquebox.rb in its format, but the directives are different. You'll need to configure it like this:

TorqueBox::RemoteDeploy.configure do
  torquebox_home "/opt/torquebox"
  hostname "localhost"
  port "2222"
  user "vagrant"
  key "~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key"
  sudo true
end

Of course, fill in the values with your own server information. Then you can stage your application on the remote server with this command:

$ rake torquebox:remote:stage

This will create a Knob file, copy it to the remote server, and explode it to a location where commands can be run from its root directory; like this:

$ rake torquebox:remote:exec["bundle install --path vendor/bundle"]

Or if you ran bundle --deployment before creating your Knob you can just jump right in and run something more useful like your migrations:

$ rake torquebox:remote:exec["bundle exec rake db:migrate"]

After the exec tasks are complete, you can deploy the Knob to the TorqueBox server.

$ rake torquebox:remote:deploy

This task works just like the torquebox:deploy:archive task, but remotely.

If you plan to use a JRuby installation other than the version that comes packaged with torquebox, you can specify it in the configuration like so:

TorqueBox::RemoteDeploy.configure do
  torquebox_home "/opt/torquebox"
  jruby_home "/opt/jruby"
  hostname "localhost"
  port "2222"
  user "vagrant"
  key "~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key"
  sudo true
end

The torquebox-remote-deployer gem defaults to production mode, so all the examples shown above will execute with your production Bundler group and db config. But it's most likely that you will want to deploy to a staging or test environment before deploying to production. In that case, you'll need a config file for each one. In each config file, you can specify the RACK_ENV or RAILS_ENV like this:

TorqueBox::RemoteDeploy.configure do
  torquebox_home "/opt/torquebox"
  hostname "localhost"
  port "2222"
  user "vagrant"
  key "~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key"

  # set the RAILS_ENV on the remote server
  rails_env "test"
end

Then you can deploy with the TB_REMOTE_FILE environment variable set like this:

$ TB_REMOTE_FILE=config/torquebox_remote.test.rb rake torquebox:remote:stage

You can name the config file whatever you'd like, and you can have one per environment -- but use the same Rake tasks.

• Make it friendly to remote Windows targets (already works on Windows source machines).
• Support deploying over FTP or SFTP in addition to SCP/SSH.