Cindy, Your mileage may vary using the remote dependencies and deploy:check... you should also have a way of managing gems, this can be done through modern rails (2.x+) or with a specific gem called geminstaller.
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/rails/specify-your-dependencies-with-capistrano/ - Lee 2009/7/2 cswebgrl <cschal...@gmail.com> > > Hi. > > I tried to deploy new Rails app code to a production server the other > day and took down the live site in production. I'd like to avoid this > in the future. Something happened in the process that affected the > live site. The error log showed that fastthread was not found. I had > to go into the fastthread gem and run setup.rb. Then it told me that > Rails was not installed so I had to do a gem install Rails. Then > there were other gems that were needed by the application and not > found so I had to reinstall those too. > > I have my own staging server that this all worked on, but the staging > server is able to serve multiple sites so it is not an exact replicate > of the client's production box. The Apache setup is such that only > one site can be served from this machine - the document root in Apache > is /project/public. > > I've got a couple of questions. 1- Any idea why gems would need to be > reinstalled? 2- Can I deploy Capistrano without restarting Passenger > to put the code onto the production server and then once it's all > there, change the document root in Apache then do a deploy with the > Passenger restart? > > > Thanks, > Cindy > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Capistrano" group. To post to this group, send email to capistrano@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to capistrano+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/capistrano?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
