Capistrano alternatives

Just wondering if Capistrano was the only app for deploying rails
apps…

It’s my understanding that Capistrano is deployed from a rails app to
other
rails apps on either the same or different, even multiple machines at
once.
If this is the case, our deployment procedure differs from the
Capistrano
model.

Here’s a very brief description of what I do and need, in case I’m wrong
and
Capistrano can be used.

I develop on my laptop, use svn and migrations.

When I say it’s ready to go, I tell our network guy there’s a build
ready
and he deploys it. Right now the deployment consists of moving a war
file
from my dev box to the box that needs the update. I think for rails it
should be as easy as running “rake deploy” or something similar in the
application directory on the box you want to update. There’s no reason
for
it to take as many steps as our current Java/Jsp/Tomcat deployment
procedure.

I have little access to the QA box and no access to the production box
so I
can’t deploy to these boxes and don’t want the network guys having a
installation of the rails app just to deploy it to other boxes. I would
like them to be able to run a command in the app directory on the
machine
that needs the update.

I’m hoping either Capistrano will do this or something else is already
done,
otherwise I’m going to start writing one this weekend.

thanks for any input,
andy

Andrew,

I believe you’ve misunderstood Capistrano - have a look right here
http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/98#page264
I think this would work just fine for you. In fact you seem to be on the
same wavelength as “rake deploy” is exactly how it would work!

John W Higgins
[email protected]

On 9/22/06, John H. [email protected] wrote:

Andrew,

I believe you’ve misunderstood Capistrano - have a look right here
Peak Obsession
I think this would work just fine for you. In fact you seem to be on the
same wavelength as “rake deploy” is exactly how it would work!

John W Higgins
[email protected]

Thanks for the info John. I will take another, much closer look. I had
actually used it a while ago (when it was Switchtower), but just did the
basics. I guess I shouldn’t have stopped there. :slight_smile:

andy