# Saving images in shared directory w/ Capistrano/SVN? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-images-in-shared-directory-w-capistrano-svn/93386 "2006-04-01T06:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-images-in-shared-directory-w-capistrano-svn/93386/1 "2006-04-01T06:03:02Z")
Hi all, I’m using Capistrano and SVN to version control and deploy, but I’m not sure what to do about my images directory. I use file\_column and RMagick to save images to the disk under a model called “Image”, and they’re saved in public/image/… etc. Each time I deploy a new version, my image folder doesn’t exist anymore. I don’t want to version control map my local image folder to the server’s image folder, so what should I do? Is it possible to save my images in a shared folder and let Capistrano know about that? Thanks, Jeff ---
**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-images-in-shared-directory-w-capistrano-svn/93386/2 "2006-04-01T06:04:28Z")
Jeff C.man wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m using Capistrano and SVN to version control and deploy, but I’m not > sure what to do about my images directory. I use file\_column and > RMagick to save images to the disk under a model called “Image”, and > they’re saved in public/image/… etc. > > Each time I deploy a new version, my image folder doesn’t exist anymore. > I don’t want to version control map my local image folder to the > server’s image folder, so what should I do? > > Is it possible to save my images in a shared folder and let Capistrano > know about that? > > Thanks, > Jeff Yep, use shared folder and write recipie in cap to create sym links from public/image ---
**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-images-in-shared-directory-w-capistrano-svn/93386/3 "2006-04-01T06:37:38Z")
2006/3/31, Gokhan A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Jeff C.man wrote: > > > Is it possible to save my images in a shared folder and let Capistrano > > know about that? > > Yep, use shared folder and write recipie in cap to create sym links from > public/image Make a symlink on the production system and svn add the symlink. Subversion will notice it is a symlink and will recreate the symlink on subsequent checkouts. You need SVN 1.1 or better for this to work. See [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.special](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.special) for details. Bye ! ---
**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-images-in-shared-directory-w-capistrano-svn/93386/4 "2006-04-01T06:40:33Z")
François Beausoleil wrote: > 2006/3/31, Gokhan A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > Jeff C.man wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to save my images in a shared folder and let Capistrano > > > know about that? > > > > Yep, use shared folder and write recipie in cap to create sym links from > > public/image > > Make a symlink on the production system and svn add the symlink. > Subversion will notice it is a symlink and will recreate the symlink > on subsequent checkouts. > > You need SVN 1.1 or better for this to work. See > [Properties](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.special) > for details. > > Bye ! Wow, that is nice. I went ahead and made a cap recipe to recreate the symlink, but that’s pretty much seamless. Thanks! Jeff ---
**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-images-in-shared-directory-w-capistrano-svn/93386/5 "2006-04-01T23:22:36Z")
I just blogged this: [http://kylemaxwell.com/articles/2006/04/01/using-filecolumn-with-capistrano](http://kylemaxwell.com/articles/2006/04/01/using-filecolumn-with-capistrano) * * * I assume that you already have basic familiarity iwth Ruby, Rails, the Rails plugin system, Capistrano, and FileColumn (or file\_column), but not neccessarily the internals of the above programs. Let’s get them all working together. First, for convienience, you should choose the name of a folder in your site for the file\_column content to reside. I usually set this to RAILS\_ENV, so that I can run with multiple environments on one rails app. Your file\_column content is tied to a specific database, and if multiple environments use the same folder, then you have the potential to overwrite data. Ok, so you’ve chosen your folder name. I’ll assume you’ve stuck to my convention of [www.yoursite.com/RAILS\_ENV/](http://www.yoursite.com/RAILS_ENV/), but you can choose a prettier name if you’d like. We’re going to make file\_column understand this preference in one of two ways: 1. Call file\_column with options: file\_column :some\_image, :root\_path =\> File.join(RAILS\_ROOT, “public”, RAILS\_ENV), :web\_root =\> RAILS\_ENV + “/” The problem with this is that its not very DRY. To make it DRY, you should: 1. Modify the DEFAULT\_OPTIONS hash directly, in vendor/plugins/file\_column/lib/file\_column.rb, around line 500 or so. Now you’ve got to make Capistrano symlink this folder into another folder in your shared directory. To do this, add the following to your deploy.rb recipe. Then run `cap setup` task :after\_setup run “mkdir #{shared\_path}/production” end task :after\_symlink do run “ln -nfs #{shared\_path}/production #{release\_path}/public/production” end – Kyle M. Chief Technologist E Factor Media // FN Interactive removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 1-866-263-3261