Great. Thanks for clearing that up. So, as I continue to develop this app, and I pull down a version from the repository to work on, I should not be adding records unless I want to move the data again? In other words, records should only be added to the app running on the production server?
On Aug 8, 7:18 pm, "Jamis Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
