# Subversion Capistrano Deployment **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [July 1, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290 "2007-07-01T19:49:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/1 "2007-07-01T19:49:56Z")
Hi everyone, I’m new to ruby and web development in general, and i’m having issues with deployment from subversion to my test server and production server. After adding files on my local copy, and committing them to the subversion repository, I run the following command: rake remote:deploy\_dev this is supposed to push the latest revision of the website up to the development server, but what i’m finding is that some added files and folders simply aren’t being added, and other files that were deleted remain on the server…also the database migrations aren’t being applied… I believe i’m adding and removing the files correctly, and if i do a fresh checkout from subversion I get every file I previously added. Here is the error i get: “svn: Failed to add directory ‘/home/…/development/doc/app’ : object of the same name already exists command finished command “svn update /home/…/development” failed on [www.mywebsite.com](http://www.mywebsite.com)” Any help would be greatly appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/2 "2007-07-01T20:12:59Z")
Be sure to “svn up” before deploying, since cap1 uses svn log to determine the latest revision, and svn log only shows the last revision as of your last svn up. Also, note that rake integration is deprecated; I strongly recommend getting out of the habit of running capistrano via rake. Just use cap directly (e.g., “cap deploy\_dev”, or whatever your task name happens to be.) - Jamis ---
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/3 "2007-07-02T03:52:38Z")
i’m committing all of my changes to svn, if thats what you mean by “svn up” am i understanding you correctly that for example, if i commit to svn three times, and then deploy only once after the third commit, then the changes from the previous 2 revisions won’t be deployed? If thats the case then i’d have to go back and revert everything and run a deploy for every revision. I ran cap deploy\_dev as you suggested, and i’m still getting this error that it’s failing to add the /doc/app directory, because the object of the same name already exists, and it’s still not uploading any files that were added previously. I don’t know what it’s trying to add to this folder as non of the revisions are in /doc/app I just want to be able to confidently deploy so the development and ultimately the production site can look like my local copy… I appreciate your help ---
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/4 "2007-07-02T04:56:42Z")
I’m typing “svn up” and “svn log” in the console and i’m getting an error. I tried “cap svn up” also and thats saying there’s an undefined method for ‘svn’ in capistrano. I’m using TortoiseSVN as my client, does that change anything? Sorry i’m such a noob at this, i really appreciate your help Jamis 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/5 "2007-07-02T04:40:41Z")
Right, so when I say “svn up”, I mean: type “svn up” at the console before deploying. 🙂 E.g.: 1. Make an edit. 2. svn commit 3. Make another edit 4. svn commit 5. svn log Note that the svn log command won’t include your last two commits. You have to type “svn up” before it sees them. And since cap1 uses “svn log” to determine the latest revision… yeah. It’s lame, but there you have it. - Jamis ---
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/6 "2007-07-02T05:32:44Z")
I’m not familiar at all with TortoiseSVN. Make sure you have a command-line version of subversion installed, and in your path. - Jamis ---
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/7 "2007-07-03T00:23:56Z")
Jamis B. wrote: > Right, so when I say “svn up”, I mean: type “svn up” at the console > before deploying. 🙂 > > E.g.: > > 1. Make an edit. > 2. svn commit > 3. Make another edit > 4. svn commit > 5. svn log > > Note that the svn log command won’t include your last two commits. You > have to type “svn up” before it sees them. And since cap1 uses “svn > log” to determine the latest revision… yeah. It’s lame, but there > you have it. Weird, I never knew that – I guess I’ve been lucky enough not to get bit. But I have to ask – wouldn’t it make sense, then, to have svn up as the first step in any capistrano task that relies on subversion? –Al Evans ---
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/8 "2007-07-02T09:55:07Z")
TortoiseSVN is a windows client. Its nice but probably more people here are familiar with the command line way of things on unix (I.e. Mac or linux) I would suggest that you get the command line client and use that so that these directions will make more sense to you. Brian Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2007, at 7:56 PM, “Davin Chitra” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@Davin\_Chitra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Davin_Chitra)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-capistrano-deployment/108290/9 "2007-07-03T00:40:29Z")
cap2 no longer relies on the working copy. All queries for the current state of the repository are done remotely, against the repository url, so this is no longer an issue. I hope to have cap2 final out by the end of the week, at which point I will begin vigorously encouraging all cap1 users to upgrade. 🙂 - Jamis