Deploy Rails BlueBook 2014 Edition

A Quick Start, Best Practices Guide to Deploy Rails Automatically with Chef Solo!

Have you ever wanted to know how to automate your server? Sick of dealing with half written tutorials on the web or outdated books? Grab this book and you learn how to setup a server, automate it Chef scripts and you get a tested and documented Rails stack. Spend less time looking up random error messages and more time coding!

About the Book

All-In-One QuickStart Guide

Have you ever wanted know how to automate your server? Sick of dealing with bad tutorials on the web? Sick of looking up books that was intended for versions of Chef and Puppet written years ago? Grab this book today and get a fully tested and documented, modern Rails stack. Spend less time looking up error messages and more time coding!

Part 1 covers manual setup of a Nginx web server with Passenger, Rails and deploying a sample app.
Part 2 automates Part 1 with Chef.

Who is this book for?

This book is for those who have written a Rails app and have never deployed to a public server before. Or perhaps you have deployed and you want to know how to automate it. I cover Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3, Ubuntu 12.04 and Nginx with Passenger. Please let me know on the contact page how it works for you. If you found the book useful, a review would be appreciated!

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Is this book worth your time? Does the code work? You can it test yourself by going to the sample Vagrant chapter and downloading the code for this book! I will assume you already have a working Ruby install on Ubuntu.

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Why did I write this book?

I wrote this book because I wanted a single source for all the different commands and pieces of software I needed to setup a Rails server. One day I uploaded my notes to Leanpub to create a PDF. The PDF was so useful I cleaned it up and decided to share it with the Ruby community. I hope you find it as useful as I have!

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John B. Wyatt IV

John B. Wyatt IV is a newly graduated computer science and engineering student from the University of California, Merced. He's currenttly looking on how to make his way in the world, dealing with student debt, adorable cats and vile beasts in Skyrim! His current projects include Chef, Quantum Computers and Autistic research. When not working, he's enjoying his hobby of cooking and wasting time reading things of marginal value on Hacker News.

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- Introduction
I Part 1: Manual Deploy
- 1 Choose a VPS and Domain Registar
- 2 Setup a VPS Manually
- 3 Setup the Web Server Manually
- 4 Secure the Deployed Server
- 5 Setup the Database
II Part 2: Automatic Deploy
- 6 Introducing Chef
  - 6.1 Terminology
  - 6.2 Password-less Login
  - 6.3 Install Chef
  - 6.4 Your First Cookout!
- 7 Writing a Production Recipe
  - 7.1 Breakup your Recipe
  - 7.2 Install Ruby
  - 7.3 Install the Web Server and Rails
  - 7.4 Install the Database
  - 7.5 Deploy your_rails_app the Simple Way
  - 7.6 Deploy your_rails_app the Mina Way
- Books by John B. Wyatt IV
- Appendix - Vagrant
- Appendix - FAQ / Troubleshooting
  - RVM autolibs error
  - Knife complains about a private key
  - Password to user is not being set correctly by Chef
  - Server not responding / Nginx doesn’t seem to be running
  - Nginx gives 404 Not Found error, the app folder was copied and the nginx webroot was setup
  - Passenger gives error: Ruby (Rack) application could not be started
  - production.log complains about not being able to find the sales table
  - Nginx restart doesn’t seem to start nginx when a fixed error caused it to not start.
  - Host key mismatch
  - Mina reports a bad password.
- Appendix - Common Commands
- Appendix - Changelog
- How to Contact Me

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Deploy Rails BlueBook 2014 Edition

A Quick Start, Best Practices Guide to Deploy Rails Automatically with Chef Solo!