Partynest

A web application to manage political party members and supporters.

Table of contents

• Overview
• Table of contents
• Deploy

Deploy

Tested with Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS.

System packages

• build-essential
• gnupg2
• liblzma-dev
• libpq-dev
• patch
• zlib1g-dev

Ruby installation

Install Ruby system-wide with RVM:

gpg2 --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | sudo bash -s stable

Replace user with the name of your current user:

sudo usermod -a -G rvm user

Log out from system, then log in again. Install Ruby and Bundler:

rvm install ruby-2.6.0
rvm use ruby-2.6.0
gem install bundler

Node.js and Yarn installation

Node.js will be installed from system packages as Yarn dependency:

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install yarn

Steps

• Create directory /opt/partynest/ writable by deploy user
• Copy file config/master.key to /opt/partynest/shared/config/
• Create PostgreSQL role partynest with password password
• Create PostgreSQL database partynest_production owned by partynest

Example systemd services

Replace user with the name of user and group with the name of group which you want an application to run as.

Web server

[Unit]
After=syslog.target network.target
Description=Partynest web server

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm default do bundle exec puma --environment production
Group=group
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=partynest-web
Type=simple
User=user
WorkingDirectory=/opt/partynest/current

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Job processing

[Unit]
After=syslog.target network.target
Description=Partynest job processing

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm default do bundle exec sidekiq --environment production
Group=group
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=partynest-worker
Type=simple
User=user
WorkingDirectory=/opt/partynest/current

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target