Installing the Tapestry application¶

Install ruby .deb from http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/download.html

Install rails.

sudo gem install rails
sudo gem install passenger
sudo /usr/local/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module

Add stuff (as provided by passenger-install) to your conf.d/passenger.conf

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.9/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.9
PassengerRuby /usr/local/bin/ruby
RackEnv "development" 

Install some prerequisites for gems.

sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev

Check out git repo from git@git.clinicalfuture.com:tapestry.git to somewhere -- say, /var/www/tapestry.example.org

Then execute:

sudo bundle install

Point a virtualhost to the public dir in your git repo

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName tapestry.example.org
   DocumentRoot /var/www/tapestry.example.org/public
   <Directory /var/www/tapestry.example.org/public>
         AllowOverride all
         Options -MultiViews
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Copy config/database.example to config/database.yml and edit to suit. Make sure to select mysql as the database server. Generate a password using pwgen 12 1 or head -c12345 /dev/urandom|md5sum|head -c12;echo. For example:

development:
  adapter: mysql
  server: localhost
  database: mypg
  username: mypg
  password: c16fbe415d29
  timeout: 5000

Copy config/environments/development.rb.sample to config/environments/development.rb and edit to suit. In particular the ROOT_URL (you may skip the "http://" prefix):

ROOT_URL = 'your.vhost.name'

Set up the database:

rake db:setup
rake db:schema:load

Set up data directory (replace USERNAME with the user who owns the GIT directory this code is in, and ROOT_URL matching the one above):

sudo mkdir -p /data/ROOT_URL
sudo chown -R USERNAME:USERNAME /data/ROOT_URL

After you do a git pull, you'll probably want to do

rake db:migrate

to bring your database up to the latest release.

If the Gemfile has changed, you will also have to run

sudo bundle install

Set up cron jobs -- for example, /etc/cron.d/tapestry-get-blog-feed

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
0 * * * * www-data cd /var/www/my-dev.personalgenomes.org/current/script && ./get-blog-feed.rb development http://blog.personalgenomes.org/feed/