Food Court

Food Court is a streamlined way to use chef-solo and capistrano for VPS’s such as slicehost.

Instructions

cd into your project
```
food-court init
```
add your root user, password, and host to config/chef/bootstrap.rb for bootstrapping your slice
setup your slice for chef
```
food-court bootstrap
```
modify your order.rb to change any default packages
then run update to push up your cookbooks and configure the server with chef-solo
```
food-court update
```

Since Food Court uses Chef you are bound to run into some Chef specific issues Chef help: wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home A good intro to chef-solo: akitaonrails.com/2010/02/20/cooking-solo-with-chef

a common issue on slicehost is the fqdn in /etc/hosts

67.xx.xx.xx my-slice

should be

67.xx.xx.xx my-slice.local my-slice

create a default template that works on Ubuntu with Nginx and Passenger
add generators for stubbing site-cookbooks in the current project repo
enable rollingback a deployment
enable setup to accept a remote location for template packages
setup a site to house common template packages (similar to the chef cookbooks site)
add ability to package up a template package and send to package site

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.