Comments on: Deploying Rails apps with Beanstalk and Passenger

By: Manimaran Malaichamy

Manimaran Malaichamy — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:46:16 +0000

Useful post.

Currently we are using Beanstalk for hosting our projects. Just looking for easy way to deploy our ROR apps and find this post.

Thanks for the info

Mani

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:32:09 +0000

Hi Seyed,

I’m not using Beanstalk anymore, but that’s indeed a problem (one of many) going the S/FTP deployment route.

What you could do: Beanstalk allows for web hooks — you could write a script that triggers a

touch …/tmp/restart.txt

after deployment. But there’s no nicely “built-in” way to do this.

Julian

By: Seyed Razavi

Seyed Razavi — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:36:28 +0000

Hi Julian,

I too use Beanstalk and love the deploy feature for quickly uploading to my passenger sites. However, I’ve yet to find a way to get to restart the passenger app automatically (by say touching tmp/restart.txt).

Don’t suppose you have any ideas on that one?

Seyed

By: jackie @ com

jackie @ com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:18:33 +0000

thanks for the post!!

By: Dara

Dara — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:03:26 +0000

Considering our site is run entirely on Ruby On Rails, I’ll forward this to my programmer. Thanks for the valuable information. Keep the posts coming!

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:46:10 +0000

Hi Zoran,

you’re right, this is what I left open in my post—but Beanstalk has you covered on this as well

You could use a web hook from the integrations’ tab in your Beanstalk repository and specify a PHP script or similar to touch restart.txt. Wildbit actually provides a description on how to set this up—you only need to change the commands it executes.

[1] http://www.wildbit.com/blog/2009/02/10/327/

The second solution, less to set up but more work in the end: Include restart.txt into your repository and make sure to change it before you deploy your app.

I’d prefer the first solution, but didn’t implement it yet

Julian

By: Zoran

Zoran — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:15:51 +0000

Thanks for the tip Julian. I setup it yesterday but I don’t know how to restart passenger after deployment. Capistrano did it for me by “touch restart.txt” after deployment, but Beanstalk doesn’t have that option. How did you solve that problem?

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:02:35 +0000

Thanks for posting—I appreciate it!

Keep up the great work you do with Beanstalk

By: Chris Nagele

Chris Nagele — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:54:56 +0000

Nice write up. We posted it on our blog for other Beanstalk customers.

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:24:55 +0000

When I just read the email containing your comment, I had no idea what you’re talking about. After a while I was done wondering and clicked through to this page—you meant the “Popego”

Well, from that point of view… I think you’re right about it. Strange name. And—as long as the site is built well (which it unfortunately still isn’t)—there’s no great value in having it. I’ll reconsider whether it may stay in the future.

Thanks for your comment!

By: Ralph von der Heyden

Ralph von der Heyden — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:48:52 +0000

Nice to see something simpler that Capistrano. I tend to strive for the simplest tool for the job, too, so this article is a real inspiration. But I really do not want to open your Po… whatever. No, not really.