saucier

saucier is a Capistrano Extension that uses librarian and chef-solo to manage project dependencies and provision servers for your project.

Use Capistrano Multistage to manage your servers and environments.

Use with cap-strap to bootstrap new servers.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'saucier'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Make sure your project has a Cheffile with required chef cookbooks.

###Configuration:

set :user, "<user that will be executing chef-solo>" - default: "deploy"
set :group, "<group for deploy user. keep as rvm if using rvm>" - default: "rvm"
set :chef_deploy_to, "<set path for deploying chef-solo>" - default: "/etc/chef"
set :chef_ruby, "<ruby you'd like to run librarian and chef-solo>" - default: "default"
set :chef_gemset, "<gemset for chef>" - default: "global"
set :chef_solo_config, "<relative path to the chef solo config>" - default ".chef/solo.rb"
set :chef_node_config, "<relative path to your node config>" - default ".chef/node.json"

We're https://github.com/fnichol/minitest-capistrano for testing the capistrano configuration.

Running Tests:

rake test - manually run the tests
bundle exec guard start - Use guard to watch for changes and run tests automatically.