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With serverspec, you can write RSpec tests for checking your servers are configured correctly.

Serverspec tests your servers' actual state through SSH access, so you don't need to install any agent softwares on your servers and can use any configuration management tools, Puppet, Chef, CFEngine and so on.

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'serverspec'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install serverspec

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Getting Started

$ serverspec-init
Select OS type:

  1) UN*X
  2) Windows

Select number: 1

Select a backend type:

  1) SSH
  2) Exec (local)

Select number: 1

Vagrant instance y/n: n
Input target host name: www.example.jp
 + spec/
 + spec/www.example.jp/
 + spec/www.example.jp/httpd_spec.rb
 + spec/spec_helper.rb
 + Rakefile

spec/www.example.jp/httpd_spec.rb is a sample spec file and its content is like this.

require 'spec_helper'

describe package('httpd') do
  it { should be_installed }
end

describe service('httpd') do
  it { should be_enabled   }
  it { should be_running   }
end

describe port(80) do
  it { should be_listening }
end

describe file('/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf') do
  it { should be_file }
  its(:content) { should match /ServerName www.example.jp/ }
end

You can write spec for testing servers like this.

Serverspec with SSH backend logs in to target servers as a user configured in ~/.ssh/config or a current user. If you'd like to change the user, please edit the below line in spec/spec_helper.rb.

      user    = options[:user] || Etc.getlogin

Run tests.

$ rake spec
/usr/bin/ruby -S rspec spec/www.example.jp/httpd_spec.rb
......

Finished in 0.99715 seconds
6 examples, 0 failures