you are looking for http://www.dereuromark.de/2012/02/25/dynamic-database-switching/ I suppose.
I use a single file for all x versions (local dev, stage, live, ...) this way it also enables you to know which environment you are at (domain etc) as for the schema migration: http://cakedc.com/pierre_martin/2010/02/05/cakephp-migrations-plugin-easily-version-and-deploy-whole-applications Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 05:07:16 UTC+1 schrieb Simon Males: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to lighten my load of System Administration tasks and focus > on development. > > I believe using a PaaS type service might help me here. Does the > CakePHP community have any recommendations/experiences? > > So far I'm looked at PHPFog and Orchestra (by Engine Yard). > > The stand out problems I have are on Shell Tasks and > staging/production database configuration files. > > PHPFog has environment variables, so I can specify if an instance is > staging/production and thus knows what DB configuration to use. > > Orchestra is nice, and I believe has a sane cron job like API. As for > above problem I believe a domain check will have to suffice. > > Though the problem here is no domain/environment variable when doing a > cron job/shell task, so the application doesn't know which DB to hit. > > Lastly, I would like to have access to some sort of command line where > I can run Schema migrations. > > Asking too much? > > -- > Simon Males > > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
