In his blog post “Chef Cookbooks for Busy Ruby Developers”, Huiming Teo announces two Chef cookbooks that make setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment easier and quicker:

• rackbox - to provision a rack-based web server
• databox - to provision a database server

Since they run with Chef Solo, the cookbooks don’t require a Chef server.

Huiming’s cookbooks are a great example how automation can be very effective even for small installations. We’re busy building something similar for our freistilbox hosting platform.

And if you’d like to learn how to use Chef for automating many hundred servers, join our operations team!