Rails App Server Layer Reference

Important

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Note

This layer is available only for Linux-based stacks.

The Rails App Server layer supports a Ruby on Rails application server.

Short name: rails-app

Compatibility: A Rails App Server layer is compatible with the following layers: custom, db-master, memcached, monitoring-master, php-app.

Ports: A Rails App Server layer allows public access to ports 22(SSH), 80 (HTTP), 443 (HTTPS), and all ports from load balancers.

Autoassign Elastic IP addresses: Off by default

Default EBS volume: No

Default security group: AWS-OpsWorks-Rails-App-Server

Configuration: To configure a Rails App Server layer, you must specify the following:

• Ruby version

• Rails stack

• Rubygems version

• Whether to install and manage Bundler

• The Bundler version

Setup recipes:

• opsworks_initial_setup

• ssh_host_keys

• ssh_users

• mysql::client

• dependencies

• ebs

• opsworks_ganglia::client

• apache2 apache2::mod_deflate

• passenger_apache2

• passenger_apache2::mod_rails

• passenger_apache2::rails

Configure recipes:

• opsworks_ganglia::configure-client

• ssh_users

• agent_version

• rails::configure

Deploy recipes:

• deploy::default

• deploy::rails

Undeploy recipes:

• deploy::rails-undeploy

Shutdown recipes:

• opsworks_shutdown::default

• apache2::stop

Installation:

• AWS OpsWorks Stacks uses the instance's package installer to install Apache2 with mod_passenger, mod_rails, and the associated log files to their default locations. For more information about installation, see Phusion Passenger. For more information about logging, see Log Files.