Description

light weight resource to deliver web application from tarball to your host

Requirements

• tar

Attributes

Usage

web_application 'my-application' do
    url   'http://some.ftp.host/my-app.tar.gz'
    user  'alex'
    group 'users'
    action :deliver
end

web_application 'my-application' do
    pattern   'my-app*/'
    user  'alex'
    group 'users'
    action :clean
end

web_application 'my-application' do
    user  'alex'
    group 'users'
    action :delete
end

Resource's parameters

• name - name of symlink
• url - http url to application tarball
• user - owner of application files
• group - group of applications files
• base - directory where application tarball will be unpacked, default value is user's home directory, so the application will be unpacked in base/apps/ directory and get symlinked as base/apps/name

Actions

• fetch - just fetch application tarball and store it
• unpack - unpack application tarball
• symlink - make symlink in base/apps/ to unpacked application
• deliver - fetch, unpack, symlink actions in sum
• delete - remove application directory ( resolved by name symlink )
• clean - clean up old unpacked distributives (effectively delete ALL directories in base/apps directory except currently symlinked as base/apps/name )