Chef cookbooks for GemStone

Most of the commands here have been taken from:

• http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/slicehost-2
• http://onsmalltalk.com/2010-10-30-installing-a-gemstone-seaside-server-on-ubuntu-10.10)
• http://onsmalltalk.com/2010-10-23-faster-remote-gemstone

Vagrant Install Instructions

First - you need to have the following installed on your system:

• Ruby
• Vagrant
• A Lucid 64bit vagrant box named lucid64 ( vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid64.box )

Clone the project if you haven't already:

git clone https://github.com/johnnyt/gemstone-cookbooks.git

Then from the project root run the following command. This will try to update your RubyGems, install and run Bundler, and copy example files.

rake setup

Now open up roles/gemstone.rb and copy your public ssh key (probably ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub or ~/.ssh/id_dsa.up) into the file - about half way down.

You can check out Vagrantfile for information about the virtual-box. The code is mainly in the cookbooks/gemstone/recipes/ directory. Now if rake setup ran well - run the following to setup your vagrant box (this also reboots the box for some GemStone settings). This will take a while - you'll see the progress of the Vagrant and Chef as its running.

rake va[up] && rake va[reload]

Check out Rakefile (or just run rake -T) to check out the rake tasks You can check out Vagrantfile for information about the virtual-box. The code is mainly in the cookbooks/gemstone/recipes/ directory.

Once the setup is all done - you should be able to pull up http://localhost:8888/ and see the default SeaSide site. You can also run this to open up an X11 session:

rake gemtools

To ssh into the Vagrant box as glass - as soon as you get your prompt you can open up a screen session just by typing 's' - an alias for start_screen which starts a new session if none is found, or attaches to a shared session if one is already running.

rake ssh

Here are the current rake commands (found in Rakefile):

rake gemtools  # Open remote GemTools in local X11
rake setup     # Install needed gems and copy example files
rake ssh       # SSH into vagrant box as glass
rake va[cmd]   # Vagrant commands using bundle exec

Todo:

• IPTables

(MIT License) - Copyright (c) 2010 JohnnyT