Introduction

Welcome to the PHP companion guide to Deploy Rails Bluebook. This book is primarly intended as a supplement for Rails developers that need to setup a PHP server. PHP programmers can also learn how to automate their server, but they may want to spend a little time learning Ruby. Like it’s main counterpart this guide specific to Ubuntu and the recipe has only been tested on Ubuntu 12.04, the Long Term Release. This book also will not rehash many of the system configuration and Chef topics hashed in the main book-I just assume you read it and just want a nice, quick PHP walkthrough.

Since this guide is written to help PHP programmers get into the Chef fold I cover a few things in this book that I don’t cover in Deploy Rails Bluebook. This is not intended to be a guide for new Ruby programmers. There are plenty of other books that specialize in that task alone and specific for PHP programmers.

Still, for those who are completely new to Ruby, I recommend first reading the Setup a Ruby/Chef Envirnoment on Ubuntu section to get started. Next, you will want to read a nice book on Ruby geared for PHP programmers or Michael Hartl’s excellent online Rails tutorial. Then read Deploy Rails Bluebook to learn how to get started with deploying.

If you already know how to setup a basic server you can skip to the second part of Deploy Rails Bluebook. If you haven’t, no worries. The first part goes over all the little details that you need to setup a VPS (or on Vagrant).

If you haven’t already bought Deploy Rails Bluebook, you really should. It’s a great book, chock full of tips and walkthroughs for common issues with Chef and deploying Rails. I wrote it because I couldn’t find a good source of information on Chef Solo for a project for a graduate class. I found my notes so useful, I rewrote them into a book. Plus, this is a companion book; it’s not as useful without the main book.

Get Deploy Rails Bluebook from:

Leanpub (PDF, mobi, epub)

https://leanpub.com/deployrailsbluebook

Amazon (Kindle)

http://www.amazon.com/Deploy-Rails-BlueBook-2014-Edition-ebook/dp/B00GZ9SNKY

Smashwords (iPad, Nook, Kobo, Oyster, etc)

Coming Soon

Of course, as always with these books, no warranty is given or even implied for the information in this book. You assume all risk and liability.