SwitchTower: Two development environments

Rails
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Hi

I have a problem here. I am developing an application which has a local

development environment (on my harddisk), a second one for my customer
(for testing new features) and a production environment which runs
actual application online.

How can I setup SwitchTower to have a possibility to deploy just for a

particular server?

Thanks,
Peter

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On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Piotr U. wrote:

I have a problem here. I am developing an application which has a
local development environment (on my harddisk), a second one for my
customer (for testing new features) and a production environment
which runs actual application online.

How can I setup SwitchTower to have a possibility to deploy just
for a particular server?

You may use separate deployment recipes for each. However, the rake
tasks assume a default config/deploy recipe so you must use the
switchtower command directly or alter deploy.rb.

$ mkdir config/deploy; cd config/deploy
$ ln -s …/deploy.rb production.rb
$ cp production.rb staging.rb
$ vi staging.rb
$ switchtower -r config/deploy/staging -a deploy

Or you may edit your deploy.rb to be
require “#{File.dirname(FILE)}/deploy/#{ENV[‘RECIPE’] ||
‘production’}”
and invoke rake as
rake remote:deploy [RECIPE=production]
rake remote:deploy RECIPE=staging

Best,
jeremy
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On Mar 1, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Piotr U. wrote:

Hi

I have a problem here. I am developing an application which has a
local development environment (on my harddisk), a second one for my
customer (for testing new features) and a production environment
which runs actual application online.

How can I setup SwitchTower to have a possibility to deploy just
for a particular server?

In addition to Jeremy’s suggestion, you might want to look at:

http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/01/03/using-switchtower-
with-multiple-deployment-stages

Hope that helps,

  • Jamis
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On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Jeremy K. wrote:

Or you may edit your deploy.rb to be
require “#{File.dirname(FILE)}/deploy/#{ENV[‘RECIPE’] ||
‘production’}”

Sorry, this should be
load_paths << “#{File.dirname(FILE)}/deploy”
load(ENV[‘RECIPE’] || ‘production’)
since the contents of deploy.rb are evaluated in the context of a
switchtower configuration object.

and invoke rake as
rake remote:deploy [RECIPE=production]
rake remote:deploy RECIPE=staging

Best,
jeremy
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