On Oct 8, 2008, at 24:56 , Adam van den Hoven wrote:
I have never really grokked Capistrano. Casper's tutorial had too
many "Log into your shell account and run this rake task" for my
liking too, which seems to negate the value of Capistrano. In
addition, most installations are fundamentally just creating the
radiant app, configuring the database connections and installing
extensions. It seems to me that you can just install that directly
into your DH account.
Yeah... but I think Casper's tutorial is pretty much based on (or
the other way around) http://wiki.radiantcms.org/How_To_Deploy_on_Dreamhost
(to which he has linked at the bottom of his blog post). There they
say: "You can either deploy using Capistrano, which is highly
recommended if you plan to add extensions and make changes to the
default Radiant code, or you can deploy using SFTP, if you just want
to upload and use Radiant without touching any Ruby code."
From that I kind of got the picture that you were recommended to use
Capistrano if you wanted to add extensions... but maybe I should pay
more attention to the "AND make changes to the default Radiant
code". :) However, I'm pretty likely to write my own extensions once I
get more into using Radiant.
Another thing that struck me while trying to get capistrano work was:
Basically what "cap deploy" does for me is
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cd path/to/app
svn up
rake something
touch tmp/restart.txt
And for that alone, with a single server to do it on, Capistrano seems
like a bit of an overkill. Sometimes we Rails folks seem to try and be
just too clever and find ourselves getting all caught up with nifty
tools. :)
cheers, Simon
I am thinking of putting together a "the bare minimum installation
for DreamHost using Phusion" for the wiki but real work always seems
to take precedence.
Adam
On 7-Oct-08, at 2:47 PM, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:
On Oct 8, 2008, at 24:34 , Bill Barnard wrote:
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:29:04AM +0300, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:
Hi!
I'm actually looking the very same thing. I found this howto
http://casperfabricius.com/site/2008/05/24/radiant-cms-on-dreamhost-with-phusion-passenger/
, but I got stuck trying to get Capistrano at different stages of
the
process (didn't succeed nor give in yet). Anyhow, Capistrano isn't
needed at all... so I might as well try doing without it... it's
just
that the howto involved it, and I was curious about trying it. :)
cheers, Simon
I've used the same howto. It looks as though Capistrano is not
available
on Dreamhost any longer, though you can install it as a local gem. I
think it's probably a good tool and want to learn about it but I
try not
to learn *too* many new things on any one project...
Bill
Aha... so does Capistrano need to be installed on the server? I
thought it just had to run on my computer. Even though I've had
several issues with it, it has indeed done at least some stuff on
the server for me.
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