Deploying without capistrano, using git pull?

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I'm NOT working on an enterprisey big time rails application; just something for my personal site.

I've been deploying via

git push origin master git pull origin sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Trying to decide if this is sufficient, or if learning capistrano and setting that up will give me any advantages over this?

Thanks,

Dave

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I'm NOT working on an enterprisey big time rails application; just something for my personal site.

I've been deploying via

> git push origin master > git pull origin > sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Trying to decide if this is sufficient, or if learning capistrano and setting that up will give me any advantages over this?

Well on a larger setup (multiple servers etc) there is no question in my mind that you want to use something like capistrano Even on a small one machine setup, personally I'd always prefer to automate things a little more because it's just too easy to update the source but forget to run migrations and things like that.

Fred

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I am hoping to add a more practical view to this thread. I too, have read the reams of postings about how Capistrano is the ONLY way to go. I have found that a simple subversion approach is easiest. I simply go to where my application is loaded on my server and enter = svn update That's it and it sure makes it easy. David

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InventoryTrackers wrote:

I am hoping to add a more practical view to this thread.

Nothing you've said is "more practical".

I too, have read the reams of postings about how Capistrano is the ONLY way to go.

No one is saying it's the *only* way to go, just that it has lots of advantages.

I have found that a simple subversion approach is easiest. I simply go to where my application is loaded on my server and enter = svn update That's it and it sure makes it easy.

Sounds like you haven't even tried Capistrano, or you'd know that deployment with Cap is *even easier* than your method: no need to explicitly log into the server, just enter "cap deploy" from the dev machine and voilà. One command does it all.

Besides, many applications have other things that need to be done on deployment. Cap automates this.

(Oh, and you really should try switching to Git. Subversion is *extremely* limited by comparison).

David

Best,