Dead Simple Rails Deployment

[chique]

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/05/dead-simple-rails-deployment/

[tom]

Why not just rsync -auvz?

Avoiding a small bit of initial frustration in setting up Capistrano, SSH keys etc, in order to have what feels like an easier deploy is a wonderful case of penny wise and pound foolish.

Take the time, do it right, get the benefits of a real deployment. It's worth it.

[JeremyChase → tom]

I essentially do the same thing as the author, but use a shell script on the server.

Locally I do this 'git push repo master' then on the remote machine I run 'update.sh' which is here: http://pastie.org/496681

I tend to think that if you are going to bother with Capistrano you should go all the way..

[csbartus]

I hope the article wasn't deployed with Rails, right now the site is down.

[sant0sk1 → csbartus]

ooh how embarrassing. Looks like my little DreamHost account can't handle even trivial traffic :(

I thought I had wp-super-cache enabled but maybe not. I'm giving it a reboot now so we'll see if that fixes things.

[csbartus → sant0sk1]

I know, also working with Rails but couldn't miss it :D

[sant0sk1 → csbartus]

No worries, your joke gave me a chuckle too.

Looks like my wp-super-cache plugin is not working properly so every time the page is requested it regenerates the cache. No idea why but its pretty much killing the server.

[abyssknight]

Article is blocked here at the office, but since playing with the Passenger/Capistrano/SVN workflow I don't think it gets much more simple than:

svn commit -m "Added stuff."

cap:deploy

[erlanger → abyssknight]

Why would that be blocked?

[bdotdub → erlanger]

Not sure about abyssknight, but they block random random things here at work (corporate america!). They've got weird rules and/or regexes for this stuff. Some of it makes no sense whatsoever

[_bbks]

Not sure how capistrano can be called painful, all you have to type is 'cap deploy', then you have migrations, rollbacks etc all part of it.

[pibefision]

What's the news? Deployon passenger using git's its not new.

[dennmart → pibefision]

The article doesn't say that this is new. It simply specifies how easy it is to deploy Rails apps on Passenger.

[jcapote]

Have you heard of heroku.com