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Re: [capistrano] New feature deployment

lee.hamb...@gmail.com (Lee Hambley) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 21:42:14 UT

Hi Xymbol; here's the advice we followed:
[link]
-- Lee

Re: [capistrano] Re: Any advice using capistrano and git to deploy sites with heavy flash assets?

r...@aspgems.com (Rafael G.) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 11:04:40 UT

A bit late, but I want to said that I agree with Lee.

I was investigating and asking to experienced users(I'm not an expert
git user) about a clean method to do it, and none give me a simple
solution because as said Lee it isn't supported by Git community.

I invite you to make a plugin with this patch that work with the other

Re: [capistrano] No releases.last crashes first deploy

r...@aspgems.com (Rafael G.) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 16:57:09 UT

could you paste(pastie) your deploy.rb ?

--
Rafa

Re: Any advice using capistrano and git to deploy sites with heavy flash assets?

dusan.malia...@gmail.com (skrat) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 16:56:52 UT

Well, this is not my issue, we already solved it, and surprise! - yes
we have separate deploys for this stuff

Re: [capistrano] No releases.last crashes first deploy

lee.hamb...@gmail.com (Lee Hambley) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 16:51:02 UT

Skrat,
Did you run a "cap deploy:setup" -- and diving straight in with multistage
without much experience is bold, can you share you're capfile &
config/deploy.rb… I ask because this is a little unusual "executing
`deploy:migrate'" right after the multistage call.
-- Lee Hambley
Twitter: @leehambley | @capistranorb

Re: [capistrano] Re: Any advice using capistrano and git to deploy sites with heavy flash assets?

lee.hamb...@gmail.com (Lee Hambley) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 16:49:23 UT

Skrat, they should be in version control somewhere.

Chad to elaborate on my point from earlier - you should try and sell to your
employers that sharing one repository between development and design is a
disaster waiting to happen.

Consider that most [designers, I apologise!] designers tend to have

Re: Any advice using capistrano and git to deploy sites with heavy flash assets?

dusan.malia...@gmail.com (skrat) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 15:25:04 UT

We've been having similar issue, and proven solution is to NOT put any
big binary stuff into git repo, but having on a CDN, and having a URL
rewriting script which will update paths in source to those of CDN.

Alternative solution could be to put those into some folder in /shared
and make symlinks in after deploy task

No releases.last crashes first deploy

dusan.malia...@gmail.com (skrat) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 15:20:37 UT

Hi all,

I'm running into problem where I am unable to do first time deploy.
Capistrano crashes with following trace ([link]).
Looking at the source file, it's looking for last release, which
obviously isn't there.

I found some other posts on this, but none with working solution. This

Re: [capistrano] Re: Any advice using capistrano and git to deploy sites with heavy flash assets?

lee.hamb...@gmail.com (Lee Hambley) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 09:35:19 UT

Chad,

I should add that the branch notion is the correct way to do this; under
your circumstances - however this

We have a patch, that works ( actually a hack, it deploys all the files to

Is a perfectly usable solution; and the :remote_cache strategy keeps a copy
of the repository on the server so that a new checkout only performs a pull

Re: Any advice using capistrano and git to deploy sites with heavy flash assets?

calb...@neomantic.com (Chad A.) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 02:54:22 UT

Thanks Lee, for the solid advice. I suspected as much - the issue
falls squarely on git's shoulders. It will make git a more difficult
sell to my organization.

Thanks again,

Chad

Re: [capistrano] Any advice using capistrano and git to deploy sites with heavy flash assets?

lee.hamb...@gmail.com (Lee Hambley) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:28:10 UT

Hi Chad,

I'm afraid the usecase you are mentioning isn't possible with Git - this
isn't a limitation on our end; rather one that the Git mindset has.

You can read a little more here; though - this topic polarises Git users
more than the emacs/vim argument:–
[link]

Any advice using capistrano and git to deploy sites with heavy flash assets?

calb...@neomantic.com (Chad A.) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:31:01 UT

Hi,

We are currently experimenting with using both git and capistrano to
deploy our websites. Here's the situation. Both our flash developers
and backend developers use the same git repository (don't really
believe in submodules). Now only certain flash pieces need to be
deployed - the rest are binary assets used to build the flash

Re: [capistrano] creating tasks for multiple environments (and gateways)

lee.hamb...@gmail.com (Lee Hambley) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 22:26:46 UT

Joe,

We don't support multiple gateways I'm afraid - you might have to go a level
lower, and configure TCP routes and tunnels :( (or, use one gateway
(localhost loopback... with tcp routes encapsulated somehow))

-- Lee Hambley

Twitter: @leehambley | @capistranorb
Blog: [link]

creating tasks for multiple environments (and gateways)

jjwilcox...@gmail.com (Joe Wilcoxson) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 21:31:12 UT

Hi, I'm looking for a way to manage systems in multiple
datacenters/environments, each with their own gateway.
gateway 1 -> app1 app2 app3
gateway 2 -> app1 app2 app3
I get stuck when trying to set "gateway" within the same capfile after its
already been set and was looking for a recommendation on how to approach

Re: [capistrano] Re: Rails app in a subfolder of a git clone - possible ?

lee.hamb...@gmail.com (Lee Hambley) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 10:51:28 UT

Thibaut, you have a valid point -- maybe we can take some time to look into
this more thoroughly – the truth of the matter is that the majority of
people use this remote-cache anyway, so it works perfectly for them; --
would you mind adding your thoughts about this common usecase to the
lighthosue ticket?