Railsware sprinkle recipes

Prerequisites

1. Debian or Ubuntu linux server
2. User with sudo rights on the server

Contents

• deploy.rb – settings file for Capistrano. Put your server credentials here.
• install.rb – Main Sprinkle install script. Modify it for selecting exact packages you want to use.
• recipes/comet.rb – Comet server of you choice: Juggernaut or Orbited/RabbitMQ
• recipes/databases.rb – MySQL or Postgres with appropriate ruby gems
• recipes/essentials.rb – Build tools required for building linux apps from source
• recipes/geoip.rb – GeoIP C library and free GeoIP City database
• recipes/goodies.rb – Different utilities for system administrator like htop, screen, vim, ccze, logrotate, etc
• recipes/imagemagick.rb – ImageMagick utility
• recipes/mailserver.rb – Mail server. Not used by default because Ubuntu is already shipped with Exim4
• recipes/nginx_passenger_.rb – Nginx with Passenger module built from source
• recipes/rails.rb – Latest stable version of Ruby on Rails
• recipes/redis.rb – Redis database, recipe is not stable and not recomended to use at this time
• recipes/ruby_ee_dep_gems.rb – Ruby Enterprise Edition and RubyGems built from source
• recipes/scm.rb Git or Mercurial

Usage

1. Install Sprinkle: sudo gem install sprinkle
2. Set your server credentials in deploy.rb
3. Pick packages you want to install in install.rb. Add another packages or modify existing ones.
4. Run sprinkle -s install.rb inside or sprinkle_recipes directory and follow Sprinkle instructions

Drawbacks

By default you’re unable to install both Git and Mercurial at a time or both MySQL and PostgreSQL at a time. However you could modify its installation recipes or install this in 2 steps.

Notes

Tested with Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04

Based on Passenger Sprinkle stack by benschwarz