Questions tagged [engineyard]

Engine Yard is a cloud application platform for Ruby based on Amazon Web Services.

Engine Yard is a cloud application management platform for deploying Ruby, PHP, Java and Node.js applications of all sizes on Amazon Web Service EC2 instances as well as on Windows Azure and Terremark.

Build in features include:

  • Automated deployment tools
  • Server customization with Chef
  • Cloning of whole environments
  • Application load balancing
  • Master-Slave MySQL replication
  • memcached

Environments can be as small as 1 server running the application and database to large environments with multiple application, database, and utility servers.

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Typus static assets fail to load on Engine Yard cloud

In development, the typus gem seems to link its app/assets/vendor/ to /public/vendor to load assets (css and javascript) from the gem and this works fine for me. I just deployed my code to Engine Yard Cloud and now Typus cannot find any of its…
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EngineYard: How can I have a 'private' Ruby-on-Rails staging environment?

How can I deploy my Ruby-on-Rails app to a Staging environment on EngineYard and keep it private to just the development team? As the Rails application being staged includes sign-up/sign-in functionality to be tested, I want to use a separate…
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running delayed_job on each app server or on a separate instance?

We're migrating our application www.monaqasat.com from a single server to a distributed infrastructure and we're debating where to run delayed_job from. The two obvious options are: From each app instance? From a single (or redundant) utility…
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How can one set up Chef Recipes with delayed_job to spawn multiple workers?

I can find little to no documentation on this, nor any help from EngineYard. This is my delayed_job/recipes/default.rb : if ['solo', 'app', 'app_master'].include?(node[:instance_role]) # be sure to replace "app_name" with the name of your…
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How to install Cloudera Flume onto the linux Gentoo (EngineYard)

asking if anybody knows some options to install Cloudera Flume on the linux Gentoo EngineYard's instance through the portage (emerge) Or chef recipe to compile flume. Thanks!
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Are engine yards chef recipes just normal chef or is there something custom?

Can I use https://github.com/engineyard/ey-cloud-recipes these cookbooks/recipies on my own server or is this specific to the engine yard environment?
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What is the importance of creating symlink & how to create it in EngineYard

My rails app is on engineyard server. I need to create symlink for public folder. How to create symlink on engineyard server? I have no experience in deployment so i am very eager to know what is the importance of the symlink & for which folder it…
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Cron Process Keeps Being Killed in EngineYard

I keep getting "FAILURE Process cron: is down" alerts in my engineyard application. A few minutes later I get a follow-up alert mentioning that the process is back up again. Has anyone ever noticed this issue before?
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Pull Engine Yard DB into Heroku

I want to transfer my application over from Engine Yard to Heroku. The problem is that I don't know how to get my database from one to the other. I know that you can probably do this with the command line but I don't know how. I'm hoping that…
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How to uninstall gem specific documentation post installation

I just installed the engineyard gem and would like to know how to uninstall all ri / RDoc documentation of engineyard post installation Is it safe to remove all files from the following folder c:\Ruby192\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\doc c:\Ruby192\bin>gem…
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Ruby on Rails integration with Heroku/Engine Yard/similar services

I have a Ruby on Rails project that I've deployed to a PaaS service via GitHub. The Git repo is structured like so: / (root) README some random files here src (directory) a_folder another_folder my_rails_app app…
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Autotest notifications on Ubuntu virtual environment

I am having trouble getting Rails autotest notifications to work on the Engine Yard Vagrant environment. On the Mac, I normally get the notifications via Growl. However, on the virtual environment (which runs Ubuntu) that doesn't work. I tried…
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rebranding rails application

I would like to rebrand my Rails app so that each user will have their own configuration like CSS, logos etc. We are storing the logos and fav icons in Amazon S3. Please let me know what is the best way to retrieve as if i retrieve from their for…
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EngineYard how it works

EngineYard has excellent supporters but their documentation is no doubt, the worst i've came across Basically. I only want to know how EngineYard works under the scene. 1/ Which web server is EngineYard using (Nginx/Apache) ? 2/ On which instance…
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How to know if a existing AWS ELB is either Classic or Application load Balancer

I got responsible for the management of a AWS account with a preexisting load balancer, and want to know if it is a Classic load balancer or an application load balancer. I could not find the information either through the web console or the ruby…