Introduction

This chef cookbook setups an example rails app using the AWS RDS cookbook

Requirements

Git
Chef 11.4+
Ruby 1.9.3+
AWS Credentials

Non-Gem Dependencies

Vagrant 1.3.5+
vagrant-aws 1.3.4: Install using: vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws
vagrant-env 0.0.2: Install using vagrant plugin install vagrant-env
vagrant-berkshelf 1.3.4: Install using vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf

Usage

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/gosuri/rails-app-cookbook.git
cd rails-app-cookbook

Create the web EC2 security groups

Create a security group called web and open 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP) ports. It should be available at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#s=SecurityGroups

It'll look something like in the image below
Add web EC2 security to default RDS security group

In order to make the rds instance available to the ec2 instance, you will need to add the web ec2 security group to default rds security group. It should be available at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/home?region=us-east-1#securitygroup:ids=default

It'll look something like this:
Place AWS credentials in .env file

Place .env that contains your AWS credentials under .env. You can use the sample .env.sample to get started
```
cat > .env <<ENV
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX
export AWS_KEYPAIR_NAME=xxx
ENV
```
Install gem dependencies

First you'll need bundler which can be installed with a simple gem install bundler. Afterwords, do the following:
```
bundle install
```
Provision an AWS instance
```
source .env && vagrant up --provider=aws
```
If the provisioning fails you can restart it using vagrant provision
Point your browser to the newly created ec2 instanstance and you should see 'It works!'

Recipes

default.rb: The default recipe creates an rds instance and setups the rails app with unicorn and nginx

Contributing

Fork the project on github
Commit your changes to your fork
Send a pull request

License & Author

Author:: Greg Osuri (gosuri@gmail.com)

Licensed under the MIT License

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