Greg, Capistrano manages the actual process of deployment. Moonshine manages ruby, apache, your database, iptables, god, cron, sphinx, gems, memchached, and just about everything else on your system, and it keeps your entire system config in version control. It plays nice with multiple rails apps on the same server, and it makes it easy to manage multiserver deployments (with separate database servers, app servers, etc). It handles anything that puppet does.
You rarely (if ever) have to actually ssh in to the server, and it's basically a one stop bulletproof way to handle server provisioning and deployment. Jarin P.S. Chef is another good alternative to Moonshine (as is just deploying to Heroku), but Chef is much more complex in its configuration and Heroku is awesome and simple beyond belief but it does have several limitations compared to a bare VPS box or dedicated server. On Feb 15, 6:45 pm, greghauptmann <greg.hauptm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jarin - noting it has Capistrano under the bonnet what does Moonshine > add exactly? When/why would you use Moonshine (with Cap) over just > Capistrano by itself? > thanks > Greg > > On Feb 16, 12:29 pm, Jarin Udom <ja...@robotmo.de> wrote: > > > > > By the way, forgot to mention that the real strength of Moonshine for > > simple setups is that the default configuration works amazingly well. > > You can go from a bare Ubuntu server with only ssh to a fully-running > > Rails app in around 10 minutes with maybe 5 lines of configuration. > > > Jarin > > > On Feb 15, 4:06 pm, greghauptmann <greg.hauptm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering if there is simpler deployment tool for Rails apps than > > > Capistrano that is popular? > > > > For simple single server hosted deployments, here's where my source > > > code is, don't include these files, deploy to this path on this server > > > type thing. To some extent I guess I'm describing something along the > > > lines of a Ruby FTP script with some smarts perhaps... > > > > Or is Capistrano really the only popular well known tool out there > > > (with all it's config it just seems a bit overkill for me). > > > > thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
