Comments on: Project Website Part 5: Morph in 11 steps or so

By: Guy Naor

Guy Naor — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:47:03 +0000

Thanks for the post!

@tom: If there are gems you need that aren’t installed, we would gladly install on our systems. We do that all the time. The attachment-fu + S3 issues are now solved. We are adding more error handling to the deploy scripts, and working on automatic notification in case of errors.

@veez: Good point on the un-alphabetized rake tasks, we will fix this ASAP.

We are very happy to receive feedback of any kind, and do our best to address it ASAP.

Guy - Morph Labs CTO

By: M L

M L — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:57:46 +0000

Noel, thanks for the post. Anytime you need our help with deployment, we’re here to help.

@Veez thanks as well. not sure if you’ve visited our forums, but feel free to post your suggestions and hiccups you encounter at forums [dot] mor [dot] ph. you may also email me directly. deployment shouldn’t be that difficult

By: Veez

Veez — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:02:19 +0000

The unalphabetized rake task names are a pain. Also, I’ve experienced significant delays after deploying; it seems like Morph has their own processes that throw up various not-found or bad-gateway pages for a while. I’ve just trained my client to wait an hour before testing newly-delivered features.

I hacked up the morph_deploy script to remove the need for command-line arguments and created a bash helper so I can just ‘morph_deploy ‘

By: friarminor

friarminor — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:02:37 +0000

Glad to hear that you had a quick and easy time with it, Noel. Do let us in with more of your thoughts as you continue to explore the Morph Appspace for your apps deployment.

Appreciate the kind words.

Best.
alain
http://www.mor.ph
Thanks to Matt, too for giving the Mor.ph -sters a chance to participate in the event.

By: Matt Polito

Matt Polito — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:13:56 +0000

Thanks for mentioning the conference!

By: tom

tom — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:17:45 +0000

Thanks for the writeup.

Cool service but I ran into some problems.

1) File uploading is a bit foobared. They dont support filesystem. AttachmentFu S3 was throwing permission denied errors

2) Couldnt install gems. Rails 2.1 doesnt pick up Gem Plugins that are in the vendor directory so freezing wasnt an option. I wish it would pick the gems out of environment.rb and just install them. But I guess there’s limitations since its shared server

3) Cap deployment failures are really tough to debug. Lots of trial and error. Nondeterministic so I kept having to do refreshes on their tool to see if it updated. They should just email any deployment failures along with the log files so its not such a pain

Looks like a promising tool. Not quite ready to give up my slice quite yet. I wish I could though.