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• Add UNIX Packages to Your Application

  You can add additional software packages to your application within Engine Yard Cloud. Packages are added at the account level. After a package is applied to specific environment, it cannot be removed...

• Convert Capistrano symlinks to Engine Yard Cloud symlinks

  Many people use Capistrano to configure symlinks to shared folders. Ideally you’d be able to fully deploy your app from the Dashboard without Capistrano. Example Capistrano recipe Here’s an example of...

• Change Your Git Repository Location

  Your application is linked to a git repository that holds your current production code. When you deploy code it will be fetched from this repository and deployed to your instances. If the URL to this ...

• config/puma.rb Overwrites Engine Yard Configuration Options

  When using Puma, if you commit a config/puma.rb file to your application's repository, it will override the Puma configuration generated by the Engine Yard platform and may prevent your application fr...

• Use Application Maintenance Pages

  Engine Yard provides two methods of posting a maintenance page for your application. You can control the maintenance page via the dashboard in the UI, or you can use the Engine Yard command line inter...

• Use Ruby 2 on Engine Yard

  This document describes how to use the Ruby 2 feature on Engine Yard. Get started with Ruby 2 on Engine Yard Prerequisites Use Ruby 2 with Engine Yard More Information Prerequisites This article assum...

• Deploy Your Node.js Application on Engine Yard Cloud

  Node.js is a fast growing development framework for high performance, highly scalable Web applications. Built on JavaScript — the language of the browser — Node.js helps to unify development of front-...

• Deploy Your PHP Application on Engine Yard Cloud

  This document describes how to deploy a PHP application on Engine Yard Cloud. Get started with PHP on Engine Yard Cloud Prerequisites Configure a PHP application environment PHP environment variables ...

• Use Puma with Engine Yard Cloud

  Puma is a simple, fast, and highly concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications. If you are writing a simple REST API application that is expected to receive a large amount of small requests, ...

• Use Ruby Deploy Hooks

  Deploy hooks are Ruby scripts that you write which are executed at designated points in the deployment process. This allows you to customize the deployment of your application to meet its particular n...