Capistrano deploy script for Meteor on AWS running RedHat

README

This assumes you've already set up your instance with node, npm, forever, mongodb, configured ports, and have optionally added a web server like nginx to proxy access to meteor.

Local
1. Install Ruby
2. gem install capistrano
3. cd /your/meteor/project
4. capify .
5. edit config/deploy.rb as needed with below

AWS
6. Add your public key to authorized_keys on the EC2 instance
7. On the EC2 instance, create a ssh key for the instance itself; add that public key to authorized_keys on the same instance 
8. From the EC2 instance, ssh [your EC2instance], accept the fingerprint, etc., then exit

Local
9. cap deploy:setup
10: cap deploy:check
11: cap deploy:cold
12: cap deploy:start

The app should be running on your instance now

13. Edit your meteor project and push changes to your git repo
14. cap deploy:restart

The app should be running with your updates

deploy.rb

default_run_options[:pty] = true
set :ssh_options, {
  :forward_agent => true,
  :auth_methods => ['publickey'],
  :keys => ['~/.ssh/pemfile.pem']
}

set :use_sudo, false
set :user, 'ssh_username'
set :scm, :git

set :application, 'Your application name'
set :repository,  'ssh://ssh_username@domain/home/user/etc/git/repo.git'
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :deploy_to, '/var/www/apps/myapp'

set :domain, 'www.example.com'
set :server_name, domain
role :web, domain
role :app, domain

set :default_environment, {
  'ROOT_URL' => 'http://www.example.com',
  'MONGO_URL' => 'mongodb://localhost',
  'PORT' => 8080
}

# This is a Rails-specific param, just want to disable the functionality
set :normalize_asset_timestamps, false

# This would be set to an array of dirs from your app that you want
# to persist across deploys
set :shared_children, %w(log)

# Set this to 'mrt' if you want to use Meteorite
set :meteor, 'meteor'

namespace :deploy do

  task :start, :roles => :app do
    run "forever start --sourceDir #{current_path} -a -l #{shared_path}/log/production.log -e #{shared_path}/log/error.log bundle/main.js"
  end

  task :restart, :roles => :app do
    run "forever stop --sourceDir #{current_path} bundle/main.js"
    run "forever start --sourceDir #{current_path} -a -l #{shared_path}/log/production.log -e #{shared_path}/log/error.log bundle/main.js"
  end

end

after "deploy:finalize_update" do
  run "cd #{release_path}; #{meteor} bundle bundle.tgz"
  run "cd #{release_path}; tar xvf #{File.join(release_path, "bundle.tgz")}"
  run "rm -rf #{File.join(release_path, "bundle.tgz")}"
  run "cd #{release_path}/bundle/programs/server; npm rm fibers; npm install fibers"
end


# if you want to clean up old releases on each deploy uncomment this:
# after "deploy:restart", "deploy:cleanup"