Deploying without SCM - Capistrano

Message from discussion Deploying without SCM

Lee Hambley

More options 2 July, 19:29

From: Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:29:03 +0100

Local: Thurs 2 July 2009 19:29

Subject: Re: [capistrano] Re: Deploying without SCM

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There is also the deploy_via :copy that will tar up your working directory
and deploy it to the server, you can read more about that on our wiki under
"Understanding deployment strategies"
- Lee

2009/7/2 Joe McDonagh <joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com>

> sixones wrote:
> > Hello,

> > I've seen this question pop up a few times but haven't been able to
> > find a clear answer. Is there away to deploy with Capistrano without
> > using SCM? I like the idea of the automated deployment strategies
> > available with Capistrano and would like to benefit rather than
> > manually uploading via SFTP etc..

> > I fully understand how important SCM is but I'm planning on using
> > Capistrano to deploy binary builds to a remote server. Storing the
> > builds inside a repository just doesn't make sense for obvious
> > reasons.

> > Thanks in advance

> There is a 'put' method that uses scp to transfer files. You can make a
> task that uses this method to upload binaries.

> --
> Joe McDonagh
> Operations Engineer
> www.colonfail.com

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