Rails - Mar 2009 - Moonshine: Rails deployment and configuration management done right

Hey everyone -

I''ve just released Moonshine, a Rails plugin for automated deployment
and configuration management that includes complete configuration of
an opinionated Rails stack: Passenger, Rails, and MySQL on Ubuntu.

Moonshine gives Rails plugin and app developers a simple way to
package automation *with* their code. Any rails plugin can include a
simple moonshine plugin to install it''s required libraries, services,
and configuration. Apps can include a complete manifest to handle
server setup instead of writing custom installers, complicated Cap
tasks, or relying on external automation infrastructure.

Moonshine also promotes DRY deployment: using gem.config for gem
dependencies, mapping gems to native packages, database.yml for
database setup, ERB configuration file templates, and refactoring
variables from deploy.rb to a common config file.

I blogged about this over at the Rails Machine blog:

http://blog.railsmachine.com/articles/2009/03/18/moonshine-what-burns-blue-makes-your-blues-go-away/

The code and RDocs are hosted at GitHub:

http://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/
http://railsmachine.github.com/moonshine/

If Puppet, Chef, Sprinkle, or Deprec are your kind of thing, you''ve
gotta check out Moonshine.

Cheers -

Jesse

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Jesse Newland
jnewland-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
http://jnewland.com/
http://twitter.com/jnewland

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