Home

Moonshine

Moonshine is an opensource configuration management and deployment system that follows the Rails way, simplifying server configuration, dependency management, and Rails application deployment, using Ruby and Puppet.

Getting Started With Moonshine

• First-time Tutorial
• Adding Gems to your Application
• Configuring Moonshine
• Moonshine Plugins
• Shared Configuration Files
• Rails 3
• Rails Asset Pipeline
• Moonshine and Capistrano
• Migrating from Subversion to Git

Common Tasks

• Adding an SSL certificate
• Configuring an asset host
• Managing Cron Jobs with Moonshine
• Managing Timezones with Moonshine
• Shared Public Directories
• Adding Virtual Hosts
• Password protection with HTTP Auth
• Customizing Rails Virtual Host
• Updating Moonshine
• Updating Shadow Puppet
• Upgrading Ruby with Moonshine

Commons Issues

• DEPRECATION WARNING: class_inheritable_attribute is deprecated, please use class_attribute method instead
• WARNING: Accessing paths using dot style as in `config.paths.app.controller` is deprecated
• Moonshine manifests aren't being applied
• Assets aren't being precompiled
• Errors like `find: '/srv/example/releases/20120712140049/public/images': No such file or directory`

Advanced Moonshine

• Customizing Apache environment variables
• Disable Passenger's response buffering
• Multistage Deployments
• Managing Additional Apache VirtualHosts
• MySQL Root User Password
• Shadow Puppet
• Debugging

Other Resources

• RDoc
• Newsgroup
• Other Rails Machine Projects