[Capistrano] Re: Capsitrano deployment on dreamhost

2006-10-26 Thread Jamis Buck
'ln -s original symlink' is the command for generating symlinks. However, first, test to see if the directory it is linking to actually exists. Does it? Anybody else here used capistrano with Dreamhost? This could very well be some quirk of the dreamhost environment. - Jamis On Oct 26,

[Capistrano] Re: New to Capistrano... Few fundamental questions

2006-10-26 Thread E.B. Farnum
Great! Ok, one more question. Tell me if I'm an idiot. So let's say I have a dev box with rails running on it. I work on that box and check files in and out of subversion. I run cap --apply-to. The path I include on that command is obviously going to be the path where my rails root is on my

[Capistrano] Re: New to Capistrano... Few fundamental questions

2006-10-26 Thread Jamis Buck
There's nothing stopping you from doing that, but you'll have to write your own custom capistrano tasks to make it happen. Capistrano, like Rails, is opinionated software, believing that there is generally one right way to do things, and various other not-quite- right ways. :) You can make

[Capistrano] Re: Capsitrano deployment on dreamhost

2006-10-26 Thread cjharrelson
Here is the output of my ssh session testing the symlink and if the directory it points to exists. I starred out some of the info. _ login as: Using keyboard-interactive authentication. Password: Linux jawbreaker

[Capistrano] Re: Capsitrano deployment on dreamhost

2006-10-26 Thread cjharrelson
The 'current' symlink is in the example.**.org directory. It is pointing to example.**.org/releases/20061025231348. There is no example.**.org/releases/20061025231348 directory below example.**.org, where the 'current' symlink resides. Shouldn't the 'current' symlink exist one

[Capistrano] Re: fun recipes

2006-10-26 Thread Adam
hey folks, to continue this thread... You guys might find this rake task interesting. http://sweetspot.dm/code/s3.rake You can use it to do full backups of your SVN repository, code directory, and mysql database. The file has complete documentation on how to get this running. When you throw

[Capistrano] Re: New to Capistrano... Few fundamental questions

2006-10-26 Thread E.B. Farnum
Yes, I would be letting it deploy to the normal folder, just linking it. All of my various rails config files would have to point to the linked directory obviously, which they already would be. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to