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  • Environment Variables and How to Use Them

    Prerequisite: This feature is only available on the stable-v5 stack, from release 3.0.40 upwards, and on the stable-v6 and stable-v7 stacks. Refer to the upgrade guide for further details on how to up...

  • Customize Your Deployment

    If your application has special deployment requirements, read this page about methods to customize the deployment process. The following methods can help you customize your deployment: Using ey.yml to...

  • Deploy from the CLI

    Note: The stack referred to in this article is no longer maintained and this article is kept purely for reference. Welcome to the user guide for deploying to Engine Yard Cloud with the engineyard gem....

  • Deploy from Your Dashboard

    You can (for Ruby, PHP or Node.js app) run a simple code deployment from your master branch, deploy your code, run migrations (only for Ruby app), or deploy code from another branch in your git reposi...

  • Engine Yard Cloud Support for Ruby with jemalloc

      EY stacks stable-v7, stable-v6 and stable-v5, above release stable-v5-3.0.61, allow to run Ruby with jemalloc enabled. In many cases this can noticeably reduce the memory consumption of your Rails a...

  • Deploy a Webpacker app on Engine Yard Cloud

    Overview The advent of Rails 5.1 brought along a set of new things, like the ability to use Webpacker and have front-ends built on top of frameworks as React.js. The Engine Yard deployment process (du...

  • Using the nokogumbo gem on EYCloud

    The nokogumbo gem has been a dependency on many Rails apps as part of using sanitizer, which helps on dealing with HTML input/output. Because nokogumbo relies on natively-compiled modules, it's someti...

  • Using 'yarn' to manage NodeJS modules for assets compilation

    Engine Yard now supports the use of 'yarn' as an alternative to 'npm' for the installation of NodeJS modules. yarn has quickly become a major player on the Ruby world, fueled by both its performance a...

  • Use Non-Ruby Deploy Hooks

    Deploy hooks are 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 needs....

  • How Your Ruby Code Is Deployed on Engine Yard Cloud

    General concepts There are two components that facilitate code deployment: Client-side component. This component connects (via SSH) to the application master of your environment and ensures that the s...