# Capistrano equivalent for \*nix -\> Windows deployment **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 18, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-equivalent-for-nix-windows-deployment/160596 "2009-02-18T01:55:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hassan_S)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-equivalent-for-nix-windows-deployment/160596/1 "2009-02-18T01:55:23Z")
I have a (hopefully short-term) need to deploy a small Rails app to a Windows XP box. It’s installed and working fine, but I’ll be needing to make updates and enhancements, and would like to be able to do the equivalent of `cap deploy` and have it “just happen.” Any suggestions? – Hassan S. ------------------------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hassan_S)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-equivalent-for-nix-windows-deployment/160596/2 "2009-02-18T02:49:49Z")
There isn’t anything like capistrano for Windows using Ruby now, you’ll have to do it manually. - Maurício Linhares [http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/](http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/) (pt-br) | [http://blog.codevader.com/](http://blog.codevader.com/) (en) On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Hassan S. ---
**Author:** ![Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hassan_S)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-equivalent-for-nix-windows-deployment/160596/3 "2009-02-18T23:43:45Z")
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:28 PM, jemminger [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Install TortoiseSVN on the target box, check out your project there & > just do an svn update We’re using git, not subversion, but maybe that’s an approach. Mostly hoping to find a command-line solution that doesn’t involve all that clumsy remote-desktop nonsense, but beginning to think that’s a dream 🙂 Thanks though! – Hassan S. ------------------------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hassan_S)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-equivalent-for-nix-windows-deployment/160596/4 "2009-02-24T16:33:30Z")
There’s apparently a Windows + Rsync recipe here: [http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoUseRsyncToDeployYourApplication](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoUseRsyncToDeployYourApplication) On Feb 18, 5:42 pm, Hassan S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hassan_S)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-equivalent-for-nix-windows-deployment/160596/5 "2011-07-26T15:51:59Z")
This is an old thread, but for future reference - There’s a capistrano extension that does this now for Rails apps on git: [https://github.com/SciMed/capistrano-windows-server](https://github.com/SciMed/capistrano-windows-server) ---
**Author:** ![Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hassan\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hassan_S)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-equivalent-for-nix-windows-deployment/160596/6 "2009-02-18T23:29:40Z")
Install TortoiseSVN on the target box, check out your project there & just do an svn update On Feb 17, 7:54 pm, Hassan S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)