the Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister

Last week at work I set up my own RubyGems repository to host some local builds of upstream gems. Following the recommendation on guides.rubygems.org, I tried out Gem in a Box. It works perfectly as advertised, but the setup is largely left as an exercise for the reader (who is assumed to know their way around a web app deployment process).

I’ll run through the process I used both as a step-by-step guide to setting up a reasonably locked-down and authenticated (for upload) gem server, and as an example of how to deploy an arbitrary Ruby web app using a sane, repeatable process.

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Unicorn app server support for Vlad. Adds support for vlad:startapp and vlad:stopapp using Unicorn[http://unicorn.bogomips.org/].

Changes:

2.1.1 / 2011-12-28

• 1 bug fix

  • Allow complex commands in unicorn_command (Matthew Smith)

• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/vlad-unicorn/

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Unicorn app server support for Vlad. Adds support for vlad:startapp and vlad:stopapp using Unicorn[http://unicorn.bogomips.org/].

Changes:

2.1.0 / 2011-09-30

• 1 minor enhancement

  • Now uses SIGHUP to restart

• Added documentation on use with Rails 2.3 apps with Bundler

• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/vlad-unicorn/

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Mercurial support for Vlad. Using it is as simple as passing :scm => :mercurial to Vlad when loading it up.

Changes:

2.2.3 / 2011-09-29

• 2 bug fixes

  • Use hg qclone when cloning a repository with a patch queue, so that the default path on the deployment patch queue repo is set to the central repository. This matches the bugfix made in 2.2.0.

  • Set a default value for +hg_subrepos+ when using MQ. This prevents the export step from blowing up with an “undefined local variable or method” error.

• http://hitsquad.rubyforge.org/vlad-hg/

• http://rubyforge.org/projects/hitsquad/
• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/vlad-hg/

Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.

Mercurial support for Vlad. Using it is as simple as passing :scm => :mercurial to Vlad when loading it up.

Changes:

2.2.2 / 2011-07-18

• 1 bug fix

  • Respect +deployvia+ and +hgsubrepos+ when using MQ

• http://hitsquad.rubyforge.org/vlad-hg/

• http://rubyforge.org/projects/hitsquad/
• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/vlad-hg/

Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.

Mercurial support for Vlad. Using it is as simple as passing :scm => :mercurial to Vlad when loading it up.

Changes:

2.2.1 / 2011-07-18

• 1 bug fix

  • Fix regressions caused by failure to merge 2.1.3 before releasing 2.2.0.

• http://hitsquad.rubyforge.org/vlad-hg/

• http://rubyforge.org/projects/hitsquad/
• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/vlad-hg/

Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.

Mercurial support for Vlad. Using it is as simple as passing :scm => :mercurial to Vlad when loading it up.

Changes:

2.2.0 / 2011-07-18

• 1 minor enhancement

  • Added +hg_subrepos+ variable. When set to +true+, the export step recurses into subdirectories (adds the -S flag to hg archive).

• 1 bug fix

  • Now does a proper hg clone, so that the default path on the deployment clone is set to the central repository. This is necessary if your repo has subrepos with relative paths.

• http://hitsquad.rubyforge.org/vlad-hg/

• http://rubyforge.org/projects/hitsquad/
• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/vlad-hg/

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Lets you make your Ruby class configurable with a simple mixin.

Changes:

1.0.2 / 2011-05-10

• 1 minor enhancement

  • Default config is now accessible thru the generated Config module, as Config.defaults. The default_config method added to your class when you include Configurable is deprecated, but will continue to work (on both your class and instances of it).

• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/configurable

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Lets you make your Ruby class configurable with a simple mixin.

Changes:

1.0.1 / 2011-05-06

• 2 bugfixes

  • to_args now returns a Hash with symbols as keys. This lets you pass your configuration directly to methods that expect option-style hash arguments.

  • to_args now excludes nil values from the resulting hash.

• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/configurable

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Lets you make your Ruby class configurable with a simple mixin.

Changes:

1.0.0 / 2011-05-03

• 1 major enhancement

  • Birthday!

• http://bitbucket.org/krbullock/configurable

Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.