capistrano equivalent for *nix -> Windows deployment

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I have a (hopefully short-term) need to deploy a small Rails app to a Windows XP box.

It's installed and working fine, but I'll be needing to make updates and enhancements, and would like to be able to do the equivalent of `cap deploy` and have it "just happen."

Any suggestions?

2

There isn't anything like capistrano for Windows using Ruby now, you'll have to do it manually.

3

Install TortoiseSVN on the target box, check out your project there & just do an svn update

4

We're using git, not subversion, but maybe that's an approach.

Mostly hoping to find a command-line solution that doesn't involve all that clumsy remote-desktop nonsense, but beginning to think that's a dream :slight_smile:

Thanks though!

5

There's apparently a Windows + Rsync recipe here:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoUseRsyncToDeployYourApplication

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This is an old thread, but for future reference - There's a capistrano extension that does this now for Rails apps on git:

https://github.com/SciMed/capistrano-windows-server