Rails + OpenSolaris + Amazon EC2
May 18th, 2008
Do you have suggestions for what to include in a kick ass OpenSolaris AMI, geared towards deploying Ruby on Rails apps?
I’m working with the folks at Sun to build an Amazon EC2 AMI for Rails developers. The plan is to put together an environment that makes deploying production Rails apps relatively easy. My inclination is towards a Rails stack that includes Nginx, Mongrel cluster, Capistrano, MySQL and some common gems and services — maybe RMagick, and/or ImageScience? Memcached?
Let me know what you want, and I’ll see what I can do about it!
By Jason Watkins
- smf’s for mongral with the solaris memory limit stuff, or alternately god and monit.
- syslog logging, ideally easy to centralize
- don’t forget postgres
By Chris Anderson
On the one hand, it would be fun to play with Thin, but maybe it’s better to stick with what people are familiar with. I wonder if Thin supports Mongrel handlers?
By Chris Anderson
BTW digging the new layout.
By Peat
@jason – sounds good. I’ll see if I can figure out per process memory limiting … I’m familiar with setting global memory limits, but it would be better to tune that to specific services.
@chris – Thin is pretty sweet. It’s an easy install, but it’s still a little unfamiliar for most peopl … so my inclination is to include it as a gem, but use mongrel in the smf.
By Brian Artiaco
I know I’m a whore for this, but solr?
By Peat
@brian – You just want to make my life complex.
I’m hot for Solr, but I’d like to track down an expert to make sure it’s done well. If other people are interested, I’ll put some effort into it!