hmm it shouldn't take you hours, maybe 1 hour max unless their server is
really messed.

- Matt

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Scott Olmsted <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I don't need convincing, Patrick, I'm a confirmed Capistrano user on
> projects where it was in place or I put it in place (except for Heroku,
> which deploys via Git; Nick Zadrozny's suggestion about tagging the Git
> branch so it can be found again easily could be useful there).
>
> Now I must tell the client that the first thing I must do is spend some
> hours on something that produces no visible benefit at all. I did this on
> another project on a managed host (there wasn't even a script, I guess they
> just copied files in) and it took quite a few hours to get all the soft
> links and other stuff right and the tech people to point Apache and other
> things to the new code location. Blew their budget, but had to be done if I
> was going to continue to work on the site.
>
> Scott
>
> At 12:13 PM 1/15/2010, you wrote:
>
> You should definitely use Capistrano, Scott.
>
> It's well-documented and can handle most deployments. And by learning it
> now, you'll be able to apply that knowledge to future Rails app deployments.
>
> Trust me on this. Months from now... when you reflect on this thread and
> realize how much time you've saved with Capistrano, you can buy me a beer.
> ;)
>
> -- Patrick
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