Pkgr, make a package out of a Rails app in 5 minutes

https://discuss.gemnasium.com/t/pkgr-make-a-package-out-of-a-rails-app-in-5-minutes/59

by gravis • 13 years ago

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gary4gar• 13 years ago

Why a requirement for thin?

omarqureshi• 13 years ago

I looked at a while ago, the thin requirement is arbitrary and you can use unicorn from a fork iirc.

In the end - it just seemed a little too painful to get working with, but is something I am interested in playing with again now that I'm working full time on a Rails 3+ app.

davnola• 13 years ago

We're trialling cutting packages from Rails apps with fpm[1], plus prm[2] to create the apt repository on s3.

There's a bit of footwork needed to include built gems and correct asset manifests in the package too, but we now have 10-20s deploys, down from 8-12 mins. Plus it has less impact on server resources.

1. http://rubydoc.info/gems/fpm/latest/frames 2. http://rubydoc.info/gems/prm/latest/frames

FooBarWidget• 13 years ago

I wonder whether this will please hardcode Debian people. A quick look reveals that the packaging structure does not conform to the FHS. I personally don't care but I've seen quite some resistance in the Debian community (and in general, the Linux distro community) against packages that do not conform 100% to their standards.

lenni• 13 years ago

I'm assuming this is primarily meant for apps that get deployed to in-house servers rather than being submitted to the public Debian repositories, whose packing guidelines are indeed quite strict.

tuananh• 13 years ago

Off topic; it's nice to see Discourse is running in production.

I tried it once before, it's just not stable enough at the time.

Pkgr, make a package out of a Rails app in 5 minutes

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