Alaveteli Capistano Test VM

VM to act as target for Capistrano deployments of Alaveteli.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli-capistrano-vm.git
cd alaveteli-capistrano-vm
vagrant up

# On your usual dev machine / VM
cat > config/deploy.yml <<EOF
# Site-specific deployment configuration lives in this file
default: &default
  repository: git://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli.git
  server: 192.168.33.155
  user: alaveteli

staging:
  <<: *default
  branch: develop
  rails_env: production
  deploy_to: /var/www/alaveteli/alaveteli_staging

production:
  <<: *default
  branch: master
  rails_env: production
  deploy_to: /var/www/alaveteli/alaveteli
EOF

bundle exec cap -S stage=production deploy:setup
bundle exec cap -S stage=production deploy:update_code
bundle exec cap -S stage=production deploy

Gotchas

Somehow /var/www/alaveteli/alaveteli/current is created as a directory. Haven't looked in to it but you need to remove it so that the current symlink can be created.

Sometimes thin doesn't start at the end of cap deploy:

** [out :: 192.168.33.155] Restarting Alaveteli app server:
*** [err :: 192.168.33.155] /var/www/alaveteli/alaveteli/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/thin-1.5.1/lib/thin/daemonizing.rb:131:in `send_signal': Can't stop process, no PID found in tmp/pids/thin.pid (Thin::PidFileNotFound)

Just manually start it:

bundle exec cap -S stage=production deploy:start