Rails - Mar 2006 - Caching and Capistrano

I had an incredibly difficult time getting this to work correctly and I  
have a couple of comments/questions, after the fact.

When using caching and Capistrano together, how have you set the  
permissions on your RAILS_ROOT/public folder...or have you sent your  
cache data to your document root?  I''ve got it working now, but of  
course, it will break the next time I deploy.

I was thinking a about writing a Capistrano task that would create the  
folder structure that I need and then setting the correct permissions.   
The folder structure was unable to be created on it''s own.  Admittedly
so, I''m not very good with Linux and permissions, but maybe
there''s a
really simple was around it.

Any feedback would be welcome.

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On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 05:16:06PM -0000, Joshua Schairbaum
wrote:
> I had an incredibly difficult time getting this to work correctly and I  
> have a couple of comments/questions, after the fact.
> 
> When using caching and Capistrano together, how have you set the  
> permissions on your RAILS_ROOT/public folder...or have you sent your  
> cache data to your document root?  I''ve got it working now, but of
> course, it will break the next time I deploy.
I use something like that in my deploy.rb:

task :after_update_code do
  run "/bin/chgrp -R www-data #{release_path}/public"
  run "/bin/chmod -R g+w #{release_path}/public"
end

after checking out the last version, this changes group ownership of 
the public folder to www-data (the group the web server runs as) and 
grants group write permissions, so cache files may be written by the 
server.

hth,
Jens

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