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Note: this plugin works only with Capistrano 3. Please check the capistrano gem version you're using before installing this gem: $ bundle show | grep capistrano The plugin for Capistrano 2 is here.

Capistrano PostgreSQL plugin abstracts and speeds up common administration tasks for PostgreSQL when deploying rails apps.

Here are the specific things this plugin does for your capistrano deployment process:

• Creates a new PostgreSQL database and database user on the server
• Generates and populates database.yml file on all release nodes (using ssh)
• Support for multi-server setup: separate db and app nodes ( versions > 4.0 )

Note: gem version 4 introduces some breaking changes. If you installed gem version 3 or below you might want to follow the upgrade instructions.

Put the following in your application's Gemfile:

group :development do
  gem 'capistrano', '~> 3.11'
  gem 'capistrano-postgresql', '~> 6.2'
end

Then:

$ bundle install

In a standard RAILS app, you need to put the following in Capfile file:

require 'capistrano/postgresql' 

You need to include ONLY ONE of the following in your config/deploy/*.rb files:

set :pg_password, ENV['DATABASE_USER_PASSWORD'] # Example is an ENV value, but you can use a string instead
set :pg_ask_for_password, true # Prompts user for password on execution of setup
set :pg_generate_random_password, true # Generates a random password on each setup

Example config:

server 'yoursite.net', user: 'ssh_username_here', roles: %w{app db}
set :stage, :development
set :branch, 'development'
# ==================
# Postgresql setup
set :pg_without_sudo, false
set :pg_host, 'db.yoursite.net'
set :pg_database, 'pg_database_name_here'
set :pg_username, 'pg_username_here'
#set :pg_generate_random_password, true
#set :pg_ask_for_password, true
set :pg_password, ENV['yoursite_PGPASS']
set :pg_extensions, ['citext','hstore']
set :pg_encoding, 'UTF-8'
set :pg_pool, '100'

Finally, to setup the server(s), run:

$ bundle exec cap development setup

• Be sure to remove config/database.yml from your application's version control.
• Your pg_hba.conf must include local all all trust. We ssh into the servers to execute psql commands.
• Make sure the deploy_to path exists and has the right privileges on your servers. The ~ symbol (i.e. ~/myapp) is not supported.
• Within your app/config/deploy/{env}.rb files, you need to specify at least one :app and one :db server (they can be on the same host; roles: %w{web app db})
• If you have multiple :db role hosts, it's necessary to specify :primary => true on the end of your primary :db server.
• gem >= 6.0.0 requires SSHKIT >= 1.17.0 as passwords are redacted from logging.

How the plugin works

Read it only if you want to learn more about the plugin internals.

A full list of configuration options.

The list can be overwhelming so consult it only if you're looking for something specific.

Wiki page about the database.yml format.

Check out capistrano-plugins github org.

Contributions and improvements are very welcome.

If something is not working for you, or you find a bug, please report it.

Here are other plugins and people this project was based upon:

• Matt Bridges - capistrano postgresql tasks from this plugin are heavily based on his capistrano-recipes repo.

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