Rails - Mar 2006 - SwitchTower: why symlink releases/under -> current?

Hi,

I have a trouble with deploying my ordinary rails application(myapp).
When I execute ''rake deploy'',

[...]
    command finished
  * executing task symlink
  * executing "ls -x1 /var/www/myapp/releases"
    servers: ["app1.olalog.com"]
    [app1.olalog.com] executing command
    command finished
  * executing "ln -nfs /var/www/myapp/releases/under
/var/www/myapp/current"
    servers: ["app1.myapp.com"]
    [app1.olalog.com] executing command
 ** [out :: app1.myapp.com] KeyChain 2.5.5;
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/
 ** [out :: app1.myapp.com] Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Foundation;
Distributed under the GPL
 ** [out :: app1.myapp.com] * Found existing ssh-agent (1892)
 ** [out :: app1.myapp.com] * Known ssh key: /home/nohmad/.ssh/id_dsa
    command finished
[...]

I don''t understand why ST execute
"ln -nfs /var/www/myapp/releases/under /var/www/myapp/current"
Did I omit some necessary settings?

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Hi !

2006/3/1, Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@gmail.com>:
> I don''t understand why ST execute
> "ln -nfs /var/www/myapp/releases/under /var/www/myapp/current"
> Did I omit some necessary settings?
No, SwitchTower releases under current/ because it allows it to update
a copy of the application before atomically changing the symlink.  The
application continues to run in the meantime, without interruptions.

See http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/98#page263 for more details.

Hope that helps !
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Fran?ois Beausoleil
http://blog.teksol.info/

Hi,

Thanks for replying.

On 3/2/06, Francois Beausoleil <francois.beausoleil@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi !
>
> 2006/3/1, Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@gmail.com>:
> > I don''t understand why ST execute
> > "ln -nfs /var/www/myapp/releases/under
/var/www/myapp/current"
> > Did I omit some necessary settings?
>
> No, SwitchTower releases under current/ because it allows it to update
> a copy of the application before atomically changing the symlink.  The
> application continues to run in the meantime, without interruptions.
>
> See http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/98#page263 for more
details.
>
I know the deployment structure of SwitchTower and the way
''current''
symlinks to under ''releases'' directory.
But ''/var/www/myapp/releases/under'' does not exists.
The SwitchTower manual indicates
current --> [deploy_to]/releases/20050824141402
not [deploy_to]/releases/under.

Here''s more verbose log.

$ rake deploy
(in /home/users/nohmad/myapp)
    loading configuration
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/switchtower-1.0.1/lib/switchtower/recipes/standard.rb
    loading configuration ./config/deploy.rb
  * executing task deploy
 ** transaction: start
  * executing task update_code
  * querying latest revision...
  * executing "if [[ ! -d /var/www/myapp/releases/20060302132844 ]];
then\n              svn co  -q -r38
svn+ssh://dev.myapp.com/home/svn/myapp
/var/www/myapp/releases/20060302132844 &&\n              (test -e
/var/www/myapp/revisions.log || touch /var/www/myapp/revisions.log &&
chmod 666 /var/www/myapp/revisions.log) && echo `date +\"%Y-%m-%d
%H:%M:%S\"` $USER 38 20060302132844 >>
/var/www/myapp/revisions.log;\n
           fi"
    servers: ["app1.myapp.com"]
    [app1.myapp.com] executing command
    command finished
  * executing "rm -rf /var/www/myapp/releases/20060302132844/log
/var/www/myapp/releases/20060302132844/public/system &&\n    ln -nfs
/var/www/myapp/shared/log /var/www/myapp/releases/20060302132844/log
&&\n    ln -nfs /var/www/myapp/shared/system
/var/www/myapp/releases/20060302132844/public/system"
    servers: ["app1.myapp.com"]
    [app1.myapp.com] executing command
    command finished
  * executing task symlink
  * executing "ls -x1 /var/www/myapp/releases"
    servers: ["app1.myapp.com"]
    [app1.myapp.com] executing command
    command finished
  * executing "ln -nfs /var/www/myapp/releases/under
/var/www/myapp/current"
    servers: ["app1.myapp.com"]
    [app1.myapp.com] executing command
    command finished
 ** transaction: commit
  * executing task restart
  * executing "sudo /var/www/myapp/current/script/process/reaper"
    servers: ["app1.myapp.com"]
    [app1.myapp.com] executing command
 ** [out :: app1.myapp.com] sudo:
/var/www/myapp/current/script/process/reaper: command not found
    command finished
rake aborted!
command "sudo /var/www/myapp/current/script/process/reaper" failed on
app1.myapp.com

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

$ ls -al /var/www/myapp/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  4 nohmad wheel 4096 Mar  2 13:28 .
drwxrwxr-x  6 root   wheel 4096 Mar  2 12:04 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 nohmad wheel   30 Mar  2 13:28 current ->
/var/www/myapp/releases/under
drwxrwxr-x  4 nohmad wheel 4096 Mar  2 13:28 releases
-rw-rw-rw-  1 nohmad wheel   90 Mar  2 13:28 revisions.log
drwxr-xr-x  4 nohmad wheel 4096 Mar  2 12:04 shared
$ ls -al /var/www/myapp/releases/
total 16
drwxrwxr-x   4 nohmad wheel 4096 Mar  2 13:28 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 nohmad wheel 4096 Mar  2 13:28 ..
drwxr-xr-x  13 nohmad wheel 4096 Mar  2 12:04 20060302120451
drwxr-xr-x  13 nohmad wheel 4096 Mar  2 13:28 20060302132844

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