Generally, the data in the development database is not "real". It's just play data that you use while you develop the product. Once your product is minimally usable (and well before actual "launch") you start deploying your application to the production environment, which is where you actually starting using it with real data.
It sounds like you've been using your dev database for real data. This isn't a bad thing, it's just different from the assumptions that Capistrano makes. As a result, you'll need to move the development data to your production database. There's not a lot of reason to write a task to do this, since it will probably be something you just do once. Just do a dump of your database to a file, copy that file (via scp or sftp or whatever) to your production server, and then import it into your production database. How you actually export and import data is largely database dependent. Each database has it's own utility for dumping data. - Jamis On 8/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I have a fundamental misunderstanding of the deployment > process that I'm hoping someone can clear up for me. > > I've been developing a rails app on my local machine in the > development environment. All data is writing to railsapp_development. > > Over the last couple of days I've been trying to deploy the app to a > production environment on a remote server. I did this with deprec. > It worked, but only the database schema went with it. The actual data > did not move. I believe that this is normal. If so, how do you get > your data to deploy? > > write a capistrano task? > export it off the local machine, and import it to a database on the > remote server manually? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
