rails Cookbook

Configure a server for a Rails application.

Resources

• rails_app - sets up rails_directories and rails_logrotate
• rails_database - creates the application database
• rails_environment - sets up system-wide environment variables
• rails_js - installs Node.js and yarn
• rails_nginx - sets up Nginx for the app:
  • redirect http to https
  • obtain https certificates
  • proxy to the Rails application
• rails_ruby - installs a required Ruby and Bundler versions
• rails_systemd - manages the Rails app as a systemd service

Secondary Resources

• rails_directories - creates a directory for the app, containing shared and shared/config
• rails_logrotate - sets up log rotation for application-specific logs
• rails_nginx_http - if you don't want to run your app over https, this resource simply proxies port 80 to your Rails application port (default 3000)
• rails_secrets - creates config/secrets.yml - not needed if you use rails_environment
• rails_shared_file - creates a file under the shared directory

Dependencies

In order to install Ruby versions, add the following dependencies:

cookbook "chef-nginx"
cookbook "ruby_build"
cookbook "ruby_rbenv"

and put this in metadata.rb:

depends "ruby_build"
depends "ruby_rbenv"

Chef

• Chef 13.0 or later