If you’re using SwitchTower to deploy your Rails apps (it’s fun!), you might run into these errors:
- A Net::SSH authorization issue
- Problems running the reaper, spinner or spawner scripts
The problems causing these errors are:
- A host you are trying to deploy to is prompting you to confirm it’s ssh identify because you haven’t yet (and switchtower is choking on this)
- The
PATHof the user you are deploying as on a remote server doesn’t have ruby in it’s path
You can correct these problems by:
- Connect via SSH once manually to each server you are deploying to—which will add the remote host to your local list of allowed hosts, removing the prompting that breaks ST.
- Change the first line in each of the script/process scripts to be the direct
path to ruby on the deployment servers. Alternately, you could add the path to
ruby to the user’s environment
PATHon the remote server—but I think putting it directly in the script/process files is better since cron jobs don’t havePATHinfo and you could conceivably run those (especially the spinner) from a cron task.
Enjoy your deploying!
