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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:

@wrburgess
wrburgess / gist:5528649
Last active September 13, 2024 19:00
Backup Heroku Postgres database and restore to local database

Grab new backup of database

Command: heroku pgbackups:capture --remote production

Response: >>> HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL (DATABASE_URL) ----backup---> a712

Get url of backup download

Command: heroku pgbackups:url [db_key] --remote production

@miguelgrinberg
miguelgrinberg / rest-server.py
Last active July 30, 2025 09:09
The code from my article on building RESTful web services with Python and the Flask microframework. See the article here: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-with-python-and-flask
#!flask/bin/python
from flask import Flask, jsonify, abort, request, make_response, url_for
from flask_httpauth import HTTPBasicAuth
app = Flask(__name__, static_url_path = "")
auth = HTTPBasicAuth()
@auth.get_password
def get_password(username):
if username == 'miguel':
@ragingwind
ragingwind / Backend Architectures Keywords and References.md
Last active July 17, 2026 16:57
Backend Architectures Keywords and References
@JamesDullaghan
JamesDullaghan / digitalocean.md
Created July 6, 2013 20:54
Deploy rails app to digitalocean with nginx, unicorn, capistrano & postgres

Deploy Rails app to digitalocean with nginx, unicorn, capistrano & postgres

Create droplet of your liking (ubuntu 12.10 x32)

ssh to root in terminal with your server ip

ssh root@123.123.123.123

Add ssh fingerprint and enter password provided in email

@pcreux
pcreux / Gemfile
Last active November 6, 2025 11:25
Fast Rails + Heroku Configuration
group :production do
gem 'unicorn'
# Enable gzip compression on heroku, but don't compress images.
gem 'heroku-deflater'
# Heroku injects it if it's not in there already
gem 'rails_12factor'
end
@imjakechapman
imjakechapman / gist:9945290
Created April 2, 2014 23:22
iOS 7 fix for not triggering select's onChange event
$.fn.quickChange = function(handler) {
return this.each(function() {
var self = this;
self.qcindex = self.selectedIndex;
var interval;
function handleChange() {
if (self.selectedIndex != self.qcindex) {
self.qcindex = self.selectedIndex;
handler.apply(self);
}
@imamabudaud
imamabudaud / serialize-form
Created June 25, 2014 06:53
Serialize form with extend jquery method
$.fn.serializeObject = function()
{
var o = {};
var a = this.serializeArray();
$.each(a, function() {
if (o[this.name] !== undefined) {
if (!o[this.name].push) {
o[this.name] = [o[this.name]];
}
o[this.name].push(this.value || '');
@danawoodman
danawoodman / 0-react-hello-world.md
Last active May 23, 2026 16:07
React Hello World Examples

React "Hello World" Examples

Below are a small collection of React examples to get anyone started using React. They progress from simpler to more complex/full featured.

They will hopefully get you over the initial learning curve of the hard parts of React (JSX, props vs. state, lifecycle events, etc).

Usage

You will want to create an index.html file and copy/paste the contents of 1-base.html and then create a scripts.js file and copy/paste the contents of one of the examples into it.

@vitorbritto
vitorbritto / rm_mysql.md
Last active July 17, 2026 19:39
Remove MySQL completely from Mac OSX

Remove MySQL completely

  1. Open the Terminal

  2. Use mysqldump to backup your databases

  3. Check for MySQL processes with: ps -ax | grep mysql

  4. Stop and kill any MySQL processes

  5. Analyze MySQL on HomeBrew:

    brew remove mysql