Mysql_Rails Cookbook

Chef cookbook to configure MySQL for Rails.

Requirements

Requires Chef 0.10.10+ and Ohai 0.6.10+ for platform_family attribute use.

Platforms

Tested on the following platforms:

• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

Cookbooks

Opscode cookbooks:

• mysql
• database

Resources/Providers

mysql_rails

The msql_rails LWRP installs and configures MySQL for Rails.

Attribute Parameters

• name - Name of the application. Used together with rails_env for the name of the MySQL database.
• rails_env - Rails enviroment, defaults to production.
• user - MySQL user. Defaults to root.
• password - MySQL password for db_user. Defaults to an empty string.
• host - MySQL host. Defaults to localhost.

Usage

For example, to run install MySQL, create a database named myproj_production, and a user named boss, run:

mysql_rails "myproj" do
  username    "boss"
  password    "youguessit"
  host        "localhost"
  rails_env   "production"
end

License & Authors

• Author: Martin Fenner ([email protected])

Copyright: 2014, Public Library of Science

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