Rails - May 2006 - Configuring Capistrano For Local To Remote Deployment

How does one configure capistrano for moving local file to your remote
server?  In the docs it says that one cannot use file:// so what''s the
configuration step for resolving this issue?

Thanks in advance,

-Conrad
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Conrad Taylor wrote:
> How does one configure capistrano for moving local file to your remote 
> server?  In the docs it says that one cannot use file:// so what''s
the
> configuration step for resolving this issue?
Assuming your local machine (where your svn repo lives and you are 
running rake deploy) is linux and the machine has SSH enabled.  I don''t
see any reason you cant use the svn+ssh URI to access your local SVN 
repository.  You can typically access any file:/// URI svn repo by using 
the svn+ssh://localhost/path/to/svn URI.  (NOTE: this probably won''t 
work if your local machine is not a live internet host, it will depend 
on where the svn checkout is performed ... probably on the target 
servers, thus your local computer would have to be accessible by the 
target servers via the URI provided.  So sitting in a coffee shop 
working on your laptop wont cut it.)

So I would suggest you set that as your :repository in your deploy.rb. 
Let me know if this works.

I posted a recipe for doing this a while back...

http://www.nabble.com/a-switchtower-recipe-to-copy-rather-than-checkout-t1187330.html#a3127795

Here are the basic details...

desc "fix up database and .htaccess"
task :after_update_code do
  run "cp #{release_path}/config/database.yml.templ
#{release_path}/config/database.yml"
  run "cp #{release_path}/public/dot.htaccess.deploy 
#{release_path}/public/.htaccess"
end

desc <<DESC
Update all servers with the latest release of the source code.
This is a modified version that copies a local copy to the remote site
DESC

task :update_code, :roles => [:app, :db, :web] do
    on_rollback { delete release_path, :recursive => true }

    #puts "doing my update_code"
    temp_dest= "tmp_code"

    #puts "...get a local copy of the code into #{temp_dest} from local
svn"
    # but this could also just be your local development folder
    system("svn export -q #{configuration.repository} #{temp_dest}")

    #puts "...tar the folder"
    # you could exclude files here that you don''t want on your
production server
    system("tar -C #{temp_dest} -c -z -f code_update.tar.gz .")

    #puts "...Sending tar file to remote server"
    put(File.read("code_update.tar.gz"),
"code_update.tar.gz")

    #puts "...detar code on server"
    run <<-CMD
        mkdir -p #{release_path} &&
        tar -C #{release_path} -x -z -f code_update.tar.gz &&
        rm -rf code_update.tar.gz &&
        rm -rf #{release_path}/log #{release_path}/public/system &&
        ln -nfs #{shared_path}/log #{release_path}/log &&
        ln -nfs #{shared_path}/system #{release_path}/public/system
    CMD

    #puts "...cleanup"
    system("rm -rf #{temp_dest} code_update.tar.gz")
end




Conrad Taylor wrote:
> How does one configure capistrano for moving local file to your remote
> server?  In the docs it says that one cannot use file:// so what''s
the
> configuration step for resolving this issue?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Conrad
> 
> 
> 
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Hi ALL, thanks for responding to my post.  I''ll experiment with both
to see if it works for me.  BTW, I''m working on a Mac OS X.  Gotta go
and thanks again.

Peace,

-Conrad

On 5/14/06, Jim Morris <morris@wolfman.com> wrote:
> I posted a recipe for doing this a while back...
>
>
http://www.nabble.com/a-switchtower-recipe-to-copy-rather-than-checkout-t1187330.html#a3127795
>
> Here are the basic details...
>
> desc "fix up database and .htaccess"
> task :after_update_code do
>   run "cp #{release_path}/config/database.yml.templ
#{release_path}/config/database.yml"
>   run "cp #{release_path}/public/dot.htaccess.deploy 
#{release_path}/public/.htaccess"
> end
>
> desc <<DESC
> Update all servers with the latest release of the source code.
> This is a modified version that copies a local copy to the remote site
> DESC
>
> task :update_code, :roles => [:app, :db, :web] do
>     on_rollback { delete release_path, :recursive => true }
>
>     #puts "doing my update_code"
>     temp_dest= "tmp_code"
>
>     #puts "...get a local copy of the code into #{temp_dest} from
local svn"
>     # but this could also just be your local development folder
>     system("svn export -q #{configuration.repository}
#{temp_dest}")
>
>     #puts "...tar the folder"
>     # you could exclude files here that you don''t want on your
production server
>     system("tar -C #{temp_dest} -c -z -f code_update.tar.gz .")
>
>     #puts "...Sending tar file to remote server"
>     put(File.read("code_update.tar.gz"),
"code_update.tar.gz")
>
>     #puts "...detar code on server"
>     run <<-CMD
>         mkdir -p #{release_path} &&
>         tar -C #{release_path} -x -z -f code_update.tar.gz &&
>         rm -rf code_update.tar.gz &&
>         rm -rf #{release_path}/log #{release_path}/public/system &&
>         ln -nfs #{shared_path}/log #{release_path}/log &&
>         ln -nfs #{shared_path}/system #{release_path}/public/system
>     CMD
>
>     #puts "...cleanup"
>     system("rm -rf #{temp_dest} code_update.tar.gz")
> end
>
>
>
>
> Conrad Taylor wrote:
> > How does one configure capistrano for moving local file to your remote
> > server?  In the docs it says that one cannot use file:// so
what''s the
> > configuration step for resolving this issue?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > -Conrad
> >
> >
> >
> >
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