Subversion and Capistrano

Rails
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I have a project under Subversion, deployed by Capistrano.

When it is deployed, obviously I need to deploy “real” copies of
database.yml, deploy.rb, and maybe a couple of other files.

But if I offer it for public checkout, I obviously do not want these
files as part of the checked out code.

What’s the best way to handle this?

–Al Evans

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Al Evans wrote:

I have a project under Subversion, deployed by Capistrano.

When it is deployed, obviously I need to deploy “real” copies of
database.yml, deploy.rb, and maybe a couple of other files.

But if I offer it for public checkout, I obviously do not want these
files as part of the checked out code.

What’s the best way to handle this?

–Al Evans

upload your database.yml into shared folder seperately after first
deployment
and write a task to create a symbolic link to it during deployment.

www.sylow.net
Gokhan A.
Web D.

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Gokhan A. wrote:

upload your database.yml into shared folder seperately after first
deployment
and write a task to create a symbolic link to it during deployment.

Thanks! That should work for the database config, anyway. I don’t know
why I didn’t think of it, I’m already doing that for some other files:-)

–Al Evans

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Hi Al,

You could use a task that uploads database.yml after your code is
checked out on the server.

desc “Update code outside of svn.”
task :after_update_code do
put File.read(“config/database.yml”), “#{release_path}/config/
database.yml”, :mode => 0400
end

Good luck,
Bradley Taylor

Rails Machine
Simplified web application deployment
http://railsmachine.com

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On 30 Apr 2006, at 3:04 pm, Al Evans wrote:

I have a project under Subversion, deployed by Capistrano.

When it is deployed, obviously I need to deploy “real” copies of
database.yml, deploy.rb, and maybe a couple of other files.

But if I offer it for public checkout, I obviously do not want these
files as part of the checked out code.

What’s the best way to handle this?

No idea whether it’s the best, but one way which works is described
here:

http://www.paulhammond.org/2006/03/passwords/

Kerry