My Recipe For Sinatra/Thin/Rack/Webfaction

The solution I am using for deploying a Sinatra app that runs on Thin and Rack on Webfaction, without Capistrano or Git, just using Rsync and Rake.

1. ## Create the application: myapp config config.ru config.yml db migrate rake migration files myapp.sqlite3.db myapp.rb lib models public stylesheets images javascripts Rakefile tmp/ views layout.erb myview.erb
2. In the Wefaction Control Panel, create a custom application listening on port, get the port number, needed for config files. Create a domain. Create a website that links a domain to the application. Do a custom Ruby install. Install any necessary gems (eg Thin, Rack, ActiveRecord, whatever).
3. Set up the config files and a Rakefile: ### config.ru

   	require 'mypp'
   	run Sinatra::Application

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   ### config.yml

   	---
   	environment: production
   	chdir: /home/me/webapps/myapp
   	address: 127.0.0.1
   	user: root
   	group: root
   	port: myport
   	rackup: /home/me/webapps/myapp/config/config.ru
   	log: /home/me/webapps/myapp/thin.log
   	max_conns: 1024
   	timeout: 30
   	max_persistent_conns: 512
   	daemonize: true

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   ### Rakefile

   	require 'rake'
   	namespace :thin do
   	desc "Start The Application"
   	task :start do
   	puts "Restarting The Application..."
   	system("thin -s 1 -C config/config.yml -R config/config.ru start")
   	end
   	desc "Stop The Application"
   	task :stop do
   	puts "Stopping The Application..."
   	Dir.new("/home/me/webapps/myapp/tmp/pids").each do |file|
   	Thread.new do
   	prefix = file.to_s
   	if prefix[0, 4] == 'thin'
   	str = "thin stop -Ptmp/pids/#{file}"
   	puts "Stopping server on port #{file[/\d+/]}..."
   	system(str)
   	end
   	end
   	end
   	end
   	desc "Restart The Application"
   	task :restart do
   	puts "Restarting The Application..."
   	[:stop, :start]
   	end
   	end
   	task :deploy do
   	puts "Deploying to server"
   	system("rsync --exclude 'db/myapp.sqlite3.db' --exclude 'tmp/**/*' -rltvz -e ssh . me@mydomain.com:/home/me/webapps/myapp")
   	require 'net/ssh'
   	Net::SSH.start('mydomain.com', 'my user name', :password => "my password") do |ssh|
   	ssh.exec "cd /home/me/webapps/myapp && rake thin:restart"
   	end
   	end

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4. To deploy the site, rake deploy.

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