Re: [ANN] Unicorn: UNIX+localhost/LAN-only Mongrel fork

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

> OK, here's some thoughts leading up to what I'm probably going
> to do...
>
> 1. APP_ROOT/config.ru is in a pretty standardized location, good.
>
> 2. Most config.ru files out there (probably) don't contain
>    environment-specific logic.  That is, developers on their
>    desktop/laptops and the production app in datacenters can
>    share the same config.ru without much difficulty.
>
>    Can somebody please confirm this assumption?

Yeah i think APP_ROOT/config.ru is the standard here. Passenger uses  
it and its easy to use form rackup. heroku and ey-solo both look for  
config.ru in the approot.


>
> 3. Unicorn-specific config options should only be needed for
>    server deployments.  Things for the typical developer
>    on their workstation should "just work", like running
>    "script/server" and "mongrel_rails" in RAILS_ROOT does
>    for old Rails apps.

Yeah I think this is a better idea then my suggestion.

>
>
> This leads me to keeping the Unicorn config file separate for  
> production
> environments.  My personal experience (with old Rails apps) is that
> there are multiple "production"-like environments (staging, QA,
> different datacenters)...
>
> I'd imagine some apps I support will end up with config file
> layouts looking like this:
>
> APP_ROOT/config/unicorn/prod_lax.rb
> APP_ROOT/config/unicorn/prod_dfw.rb
> APP_ROOT/config/unicorn/prod_nyc.rb
> APP_ROOT/config/unicorn/prod_chi.rb
> APP_ROOT/config/unicorn/qa.rb
> APP_ROOT/config/unicorn/staging.rb
> APP_ROOT/config/unicorn/demo.rb
> APP_ROOT/config.ru
>
> Thus to deploy to our Los Angeles datacenter, the script
> would just run:
>
>  unicorn -c APP_ROOT/config/unicorn/prod_lax.rb
>
> If there's an APP_ROOT/config_prod.ru needed, then
> the APP_ROOT/config/prod_*.rb files would each
> be able to specify APP_ROOT/config_prod.ru instead
> of APP_ROOT/config.ru.
>
> That is, the Unicorn config file can specify an alternate
> config.ru, but config.ru cannot specify a different
> Unicorn config file.
>
> Am I making sense? (it's been a long week for me so far...)

I think you've nailed it here.

Cheers-
Ezra