Use at your own risk.

Chef setup for Rails app, nginx, passenger, postgres/mysql, logrotate, munin (for postgres).

Call it like this:

rails_server 'appname' do
  env_name 'production'
  user_name 'deploy'
  database 'postgres'
  db_user_password 'password' # appname_user
  server_names 'example.com altdomain.example.com'
  pre_start 'http://example.com'
end

rails_server 'appname' do
  env_name 'production'
  user_name 'deploy'
  database 'mysql'
  mysql_root_password 'password'
  db_user_password 'password' # appname_user
  server_names 'example.com altdomain.example.com'
  pre_start 'http://example.com'
end