This repository is used to quickly build an Ubuntu Rails Linode VPS for RailsRumble via Chef Solo. Includes:

Mysql 5
Memcached
Apache2 +Passenger
Nginx +Passenger

A deploy user is generated and assumes you will deploy your app to /var/www/sites/u/app/. The deploy user has access to sudo via nopasswd.

Chef Solo allows you to run Chef Cookbooks in the absence of a Chef Server. It does this by requiring that the complete cookbook be present on disk, which it will fetch by getting a tarball from a remote URL.

Ubuntu

8.04 LTS
8.04 LTS 64bit
8.10
8.10 x86 64-bit
9.04
9.04 64bit

Debian

4.0
4.0 64bit
5.0
5.0 64bit

Be sure to fork this repository adding your pubkey to cookbooks/users/files/default/deploy_id_rsa.pub, otherwise you cannot log into the VM (SSH as root is disabled by chef_solo_os).

On host:

* uncomment the universe lines from /etc/apt/sources.list.
* apt-get update && apt-get install wget
* wget http://gist.github.com/raw/132506/986dddee9b9c4c14e8de147abc17b95644684219/gistfile1.txt -O - | sh && cd /tmp && git clone git://github.com/retr0h/chef_solo_railsrumble.git && cd chef_solo_railsrumble && rake solo

* Develop a better mechanism to bootstrap the system.
* Does not set the system's hostname.