Ruby on Rails

On Dec 27, 12:27 pm, bingo bob <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Previously I've deployed on my server (apache / passenger) with simply
> git clone foo, and then pull in version updates with git pull. While I
> read lots re staging servers and capistrano it works pretty well for me.
> Anyone else do it my way? Don't really have time for learning capistrano
> right now. Is there a better way though - e.g. using tags to deploy
> particular versions - or should I branch or something before cloning to
> the server.

A lot depends on the scale of your situation. Doing things by hand is
one thing when you have a single server, but clearly a terrible idea
with 15.

I don't like deploying trunk/master because it makes it slightly more
fiddly if I need to deploy an urgent fix without deploying the rest of
master (which may not be ready for prime time). Not a lot more fiddly,
but if you're in that situation it's usually a crisis of some sorts
and I prefer to minimize complication at that point. Having tags for
all of your deploys also makes it dead easy to answer the question
'what code was running at date x' or 'since when has this code been
live'. You can obviously get pretty close with your commit logs, but
those won't tell you when you deployed.

A basic capistrano setup is really pretty simple - there's not a lot
more to do than take the default template and type in server
addresses, source repository location etc. I also like having a fresh
checkout for each deploy. I also hear the some people have a good time
with vlad the deployer.

Fred
>
> Apols if my terminology is not 100%, I'm not that comfortable with git
> bar, push/pull/commit so any tips in code as to how I might do it better
> appreciated. About to deploy a new project basically.
>
> bb
>
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