You also might find this screencast helpful:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/133-capistrano-tasks
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On Aug 16, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Ionut G. Stan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently had to solve a similar issue, and what I've done (after the
> steps you already mentioned)
> was to add a few symlink commands in the :after_symlink task,
> something
> like this:
>
> namespace :deploy do
> task :after_symlink do
> run "ln -nsf #{shared_dir}/config_files #{current_dir}/
> config_files"
> end
> end
>
> I used it for some railsless deploy so you'd have to make your
> changes. But
> that's not all anyway. In the :after_setup task, that is run only
> after
> "cap deploy:setup" I issue a command similar to:
>
> cp -r ~/config_files #{shared_dir}/config_files
>
> So that every "cap deploy" command will have a directory to symlink
> against.
> That assumes that you'll gave a config_files dir in your home
> directory. But
> you may drop this step and manually add the config_files dir after
> you run
> "cap deploy:setup". Your choice.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
>
> On 8/16/2009 22:47, snowmaninthesun wrote:
>> I'm new to the opensource game, i'm hosting my git repository on
>> github, and anyone can get to it, however in the interests of keeping
>> my server secure(ish) i don't plan on publishing my passwords for
>> everyone to see. So i committed some placeholder files with fake
>> info,
>> then .gitignore the files and replaced them with the correct info. I
>> manually put the correct database.yml on my server and everyone is
>> happy.
>>
>> Now when I 'cap deploy', a new release folder is created from my
>> repository on github, and the release doesn't have my database.yml,
>> and I have to manually copy it over. I started a thread over at
>> github
>> to figure out how to get around this...from the sounds of things I
>> have something setup in my deployment scenario incorrect. Here is the
>> thread
>> http://support.github.com/discussions/feature-requests/372-github-privacy-upload
>> . Am i correct that I shouldn't have to replace the files manually?
>> If
>> so any clue what I may have setup incorrectly?
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Ionut G. Stan
> I'm under construction | http://igstan.blogspot.com/
>
>
> >
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