Mandarin Soda

I don’t really bother writing anything about Slicehost installs anymore, as Pickled Onion over at the slicehost articles site writes excellent, up-to-date articles on the most relevant deployment and configuration topics. However, I just did a Radiant install, complete with Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) and Ruby Enterprise on Ubuntu Hardy and found a nice shortcut I thought I would share.

The shortcut in question is a fork of the Sprinkle gem by Mitchell Hashimoto. Check out his screencast for the details and read the comments as well. I just had to change the Phusion Passenger versions in the scripts, modify the scripts to install MySQL and Radiant (gem install radiant) and I was good to go.

If you’ve never setup a Slice before, I don’t usually recommend using ready-made scripts, as it’s good to go through the steps – particularly as things do tend to break. I had problems installing the MySQL gem from Capistrano for some reason I didn’t bother to dwell on for too long. Otherwise, I found the Sprinkle gem to be very helpful.

Now onto monitoring with God, some logrotate and the other usual suspects.

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