czarneckid

Zero downtime deploys with unicorn + nginx + runit + rvm + chef

Below are the actual files we use in one of our latest production applications at Agora Games to achieve zero downtime deploys with unicorn. You've probably already read the GitHub blog post on Unicorn and would like to try zero downtime deploys for your application. I hope these files and notes help. I am happy to update these files or these notes if there are comments/questions. YMMV (of course).

Other application notes:

• Our application uses MongoDB, so we don't have database migrations to worry about as with MySQL or postgresql. That does not mean that we won't have to worry about issues with the database with indexes being built in MongoDB or what have you.
• We use capistrano for deployment.

Salient points for each file:

romanbsd

require 'faraday'
require 'zlib'

module FaradayMiddleware
  class Gzip < Faraday::Response::Middleware

    def on_complete(env)
      encoding = env[:response_headers]['content-encoding'].to_s.downcase
      case encoding
      when 'gzip'

mikhailov

# Nginx+Unicorn best-practices congifuration guide. Heartbleed fixed.
# We use latest stable nginx with fresh **openssl**, **zlib** and **pcre** dependencies.
# Some extra handy modules to use: --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_gzip_static_module
#
# Deployment structure
#
# SERVER:
#  /etc/init.d/nginx                             (1. nginx)
#  /home/app/public_html/app_production/current  (Capistrano directory)
#

burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.

heffergm

#!/usr/bin/env /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.2-p290@puppet/ruby
## Used by M/Monit to send prowl alerts

require 'rubygems'
require 'optparse'


# everyone's API keys
contact_info = {
  "grant"=>{"key"=>"my_api_key"}

runemadsen

Polymorphic Associations reversed

It's pretty easy to do polymorphic associations in Rails: A Picture can belong to either a BlogPost or an Article. But what if you need the relationship the other way around? A Picture, a Text and a Video can belong to an Article, and that article can find all media by calling @article.media

This example shows how to create an ArticleElement join model that handles the polymorphic relationship. To add fields that are common to all polymorphic models, add fields to the join model.

ryanb

require "time"
require "date"

class Date
  def to_time
    Time.local(year, month, day)
  end
end

class Time

defunkt

# unicorn_rails -c /data/github/current/config/unicorn.rb -E production -D

rails_env = ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'production'

# 16 workers and 1 master
worker_processes (rails_env == 'production' ? 16 : 4)

# Load rails+github.git into the master before forking workers
# for super-fast worker spawn times
preload_app true