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My Recipe For Sinatra/Thin/Rack/Webfaction

Wednesday 03 June 2009 | 0 comments

The solution I am using for deploying a Sinatra app that runs on Thin and Rack on Webfaction, without Capistrano or Git, just using Rsync and Rake.

1. Create the application:

   myapp
   config
      config.ru
      config.yml
      db
          migrate
              rake migration files
          myapp.sqlite3.db
   myapp.rb
   lib
   models
   public
      stylesheets
      images
      javascripts
   Rakefile
   tmp/
   views
      layout.erb
      myview.erb

2. In the Wefaction Control Panel, create a custom application listening on port, get the port number, needed for config files. Create a domain. Create a website that links a domain to the application. Do a custom Ruby install. Install any necessary gems (eg Thin, Rack, ActiveRecord, whatever).
3. Set up the config files and a Rakefile:

   config.ru

   config.yml

   Rakefile

4. To deploy the site, rake deploy.