Server Team 20080722 meeting minutes

[David Portwood]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 08:52 -0400, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> Mathias Gug wrote:
> > ==== RAILS integration ====
> > 
> > macd reported that mod_rails has been packaged and uploaded to REVU. mathiaz
> > reviewed it and sent his feedback to Neil (the packager). Overall it looks
> > good.
> > 
> > macd also mentioned the discussions he's having with the Debian maintainers
> > for ruby/rubygems that is taking place in bug 145267[8]. There was some
> > discussion about the issue which boils down to a PATH issue. The debian gems
> > and the source installed gems don't end up in the same place. Rails apps looks
> > in a specific place and rails isn't capable of looking in more than one place.
> > soren, macd and persia discussed the path issue and deferred it to #ubuntu-
> > server after the meeting.
> > 
> > [8]: https://launchpad.net/bugs/145267
> 
> There was a guy speaking at Ubuntu Live 2007 about how he deployed Rails
> on Ubuntu.  He have a blog post about some of the stuff he do to
> automate the work.  He is working outside the packaging framework, so I
> do not know how much of it is applicable for us, but there it is:
> 
>     http://blog.railsmachine.com/2007/5/25/ann-machinify-stack-toolkit
> 
> 
> Right now, I understand he deploy mostly on CentOS + KVM, but does his
> development on Ubuntu + KVM so he must have a clue.  I will try to poke
> him in joining the list and sharing his experience.
> 
Would be great to get another head in this. His post does seem to
indicate he is outside of packaging, but may have osme insight on the
deployment side of a sample app.


> 
> -- 
> Etienne Goyer, Senior Ubuntu System Support Analyst
> Ubuntu Certified Instructor
> Canonical, Ltd
>