Deploying Sinatra on Joyent’s Shared Accelerators with Thin

On Thursday afternoon, I had an idea for just about the smallest web app I could think of (since then, I’ve even cut out a couple features). It didn’t make sense to use all of Ruby on Rails for this considering how tiny it was.

Seemed like a great opportunity to try out Sinatra1

  1. Write the app
  2. Vendor Sinatra and Rack (that’s just good practice)
  3. Submit a ticket requesting a port
  4. Add a config.ru file to your app’s directory (for Rack) containing the following

    # PATH TO VENDOR-ED RACK AND SINATRA
    require 'vendor/rack-[VERSION]/lib/rack'
    require 'vendor/sinatra-[VERSION]/lib/sinatra'
    Sinatra::Application.set(
    :run => false,
    :environment => :production
    )
    require 'app'
    run Sinatra::Application
  5. Add a config.yml file to your app’s directory for Thin containing the following

    ---
    environment: production
    chdir: /path/to/app
    address: 127.0.0.1
    user: [USERNAME]
    port: [PORT]
    pid: /path/to/domain/tmp/thin.pid
    rackup: /path/to/app/config.ru
    log: /path/to/domain/logs/thin.log
    max_conns: 1024
    timeout: 30
    max_persistent_conns: 512
    daemonize: true
  6. Follow the Setting up and Configuring Lighttpd instructions on the Joyent Wiki (See update below)
  7. Add another Bootup Action for Thin
    Startup thin -s 1 -C /path/to/config.yml -R /path/to/config.ru start
    Shutdown thin -s 1 -C /path/to/config.yml -R /path/to/config.ru stop
  8. Follow the Proxying to a Port instructions on the Joyent Wiki
  9. 1. If the time I spent building this app was a cocktail, it’d be 1 part programming, 2 parts design, 3 parts deployment. That’s a huge part of why I wrote this post.

UPDATE: March 8, 2009
My gut says Lighttpd + Thin is redundant, so I’ve turned Lighttpd off.

2 comments

  1. Thank you for the post, it helped me limp along and get a basic sinatra/thin app running! now to investigate vlad or capistrano 😀

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