On May 26, 11:53 am, greenpoise <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh no, I am not developing where the live data resides. But when I > make changes to my application on my development environment, how do I > transfer/update those changes on my production site?
You have to work out a procedure that works with your production environment. Typically, you will want a way to easily "undo" is anything goes wrong: I use hg on my production site (and include things like the databases files - i.e. table migrations - in that versioning). Then, you will want to work out a cut-over procedure: if you make changes to modules, you will typically need to restart the web2py server; otherwise, you can push changes to a running site (!). You will probably want a staging area somewhere - either locally, or on your production site - where you will have some way to ensure the correct connection strings, etc. for your production site, before pushing out to it. You could run your changes on your production server in a "beta" server (to make sure the environment doesn't affect anything, and that you have removed all your debug info, and that the correct connection string changes are in effect - I like to have mine automatically change on environment). Then you need some way to move the files over to the production server, and finally the production instance. I use rsync, but you could use a graphical system, something life filezilla. Basically, you have to work out your deployment procedure, and recovery paths. Regards, - Yarko > > On May 26, 12:36 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You probably don't want to develop on your live data. > > > To be able to migrate data the DAL includes two functions.. > > > db.export_to_csv_file(open('/path.csv', 'w')) > > db.import_from_csv_file(open('/path.csv', 'r')) > > > So you can export your data, and then stick it on the server and > > re-import it. This also has the advantage that you can use something > > like PostgreSQL on your production machine. > > > -- > > Thadeus > > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:39 AM, greenpoise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have web2py production and my development environment. How would I > > > go for leaving the data intact in my production? Is there a way? What > > > I did is I packedAll the project and took it to my production but I > > > will keep working on it on my development environment. Is this how it > > > should be done? > > > > Thanks
