golden_brindle

Golden Brindle

Tool to help start/stop/restart multiple unicorn servers to use behind a web servers like nginx. This app adds an option to specify a number of Unicorn worker processes to launch, a range of ports, and a configuration file for the cluster. Use “-h” to see command syntax.

Configure cluster and save configuration file to config/brindle.yml:

golden_brindle brindle::configure

You must copy this configuration file to the /etc/brindles directory to autostart on system boot.

Start by hand to test proper start:

golden_brindle start

Reload source code after deploy or code update:

golden_brindle restart

Stop:

golden_brindle stop

Using applications with bundler

Open brindle config file for the application and set bundler option to true:

bundler: true

And update you Gemfile adding this line:

gem 'golden_brindle'

Starting clusters at boot

  1. Create golden_brindle configuration directory (/etc/brindles).

  2. Assign ownership to your Capistrano user.

  3. Copy the init.d script from this gem’s resouces directory to /etc/init.d.

  4. chmod +x /etc/init.d/golden_brindles_cluster

  5. Add to init.d startup. On RHEL/CentOS use: /sbin/chkconfig –level 345 golden_brindles on

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • 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.

Copyright © 2010-2011 Alexander Simonov. See LICENSE for details.

Copyright © 2007 Zed A. Shaw

Copyright © 2006 Bradley Taylor, [email protected]