I've looked around the net today for the nicely integrated into rails solution
for rsync-based deployment but failed to find anything good enough so I've
just moved on and create my own rake task. It allows to deploy applications
to a number of different servers configured in config/rsync.yml file and
supports exclusions listed as the plain text file in
config/rsync_exclude.txt.
Iniatilly I wanted to share this thing on rails' wiki but the current page
related to the same tasks seems to have some problems and previous posts on
this maillist suggests that wiki doesn't feel itself good nowdays because of
all the spam.
So if anyone is interested in this code - I can post it here in the maillist
with relevant description. Does anyone need it?
I don't need it, but I'm sure that at some point there will definitely
be someone who searches this mailing list for something like this! You
should post it Good work, and thanks!
Ok, so attached is the rake file that should be saved in the lib/tasks/ folder
as usual. It provides a new rake task called "sync" that synchronizes the
application's RAILS_ROOT with the specified directory on remote server. It
uses rsync running over ssh remote shell transport.
To use this task you should first define the parameters of a remote servers in
config/rsync.yml file. Let's see an example:
Good work, and thanks!