Lee: Yes, I need to run this on server. Mathias: Thanks for your reply. It was helpful. I guess I'll try some Rake.
On Apr 27, 1:45 am, Mathias Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26.04.2009, at 20:51, Abhi wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I'm currently new to capistrano. After trying out various solutions > > built in PHP - I found capistrano the best one. I'm using it to > > automate a simple build process used by our team from a last few days. > > > Here's the process: > > > 1. Create a new directory called 'app' in directory as specified in > > ":repository" variable. > > 2. Checkout at this 'app' directory. > > 3. After checkout, read a file called CAKE, which contains the rev. > > number of CakePHP framework to be used. > > 4. Depending on revision, copy it from another library directory (from > > same server) > > 5. Perform basic MySQL stuff > > 6. Create sub-domain like: someApp.mydomain.com > > 7. This subdomain should automatically point out to /current directory > > > Because I'm not a ruby player yet - I'm not sure how easy/hard it will > > be to do with Capistrano. Please let me know what you guys think? > > Do you want to run all that stuff remotely? Capistrano is more of a > "check out this code and do stuff with it" tool. What you describe > sounds to me more like a job for writing a plain Rakefile (which you > can then easily call remotely with Capistrano) for use with Ruby's > build tool rake. In a Rakefile you can include libraries to e.g. talk > to MySQL, and you can use Ruby's built-in file system support. I think > this kind of script to run these administrative commands is more > fitting. > > I think you'd be better off this way, since writing it in plain > Capistrano run commands (calling shell commands in turn) would result > in a pretty awkward code. > > Cheers, Mathias > --http://paperplanes.dehttp://twitter.com/roidrage --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
