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Deploy away!
Create the database and the user in PostgreSQL with the same name so that when the
system user account of ticketeeapp.com attempts to connect to this database they are
automatically granted access. There is no need to configure this at all, which is most
excellent. This process is referred to as ident authentication.
14.4.2 Ident authentication
Ident authentication works by determining if the user connecting has an account with
an identical name on the database server. Your system’s user account is named
ticketeeapp.com and the PostgreSQL user you created is also named ticketeeapp.com.
You can attempt to connect using the psql command from the ticketeeapp.com user,
after first exiting from the postgres user’s session:
exit
sudo su ticketeeapp.com
psql
If everything goes well, you should see this prompt:
psql (8.4.8)
Type "help" for help.
ticketeeapp.com=>
This means that you’re connected to the ticketeeapp.com database successfully. You
can now execute SQL queries here if you wish. Exit out of this prompt by typing \q
and pressing Enter.
That’s all you need to do for your database for now. You’ve got a fully functioning
server, ready to accept your tables and data for your application. Now you need to give
it what it needs! You can do this by putting the application on the server and running
the rake db:migrate command, which will create the tables, and then rake db:seed,
which will insert the basic data found inside db/seeds.rb.
We’re not going to make you manually copy over this application, as this can get
repetitive and boring. As programmers, we don’t like repetitive and boring. One of
your kind is called Jamis Buck, and he created a little tool called Capistrano to help
automate the process of deploying your application.
14.5 Deploy away!
Capistrano is a gem originally created by Jamis Buck that is now maintained by Lee
Hambley and additional volunteers, as well as the growing community that use it. It
was initially designed for easy application deployment for Rails applications, but can
now be used for other applications as well. Capistrano provides an easy way to configure
and deploy versions of an application to one or many servers.
You’ll use Capistrano to put your application’s code on the server, automatically
run the migrations, and restart the server after this has been completed. This action is
referred to as a deploy.
Before you leap into that however, you’re going to set up a deploy key for your repository
on GitHub.
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