Vlad the deployer on Dreamhost - initial script

Question

Hi, I'm trying to deploy an app with SVN and Vlad the deployer. Vlad and its dependencies are installed and seem OK.

I'm trying the following:

rake prod vlad:update

Being my config/deploy.rb file:

task :prod do
set :application, "xxx"
set :deploy_timestamped, "false"
set :user,       "username"
set :scm_user,   "scmusername"
set :repository, "http://domain.com/svn/app"
set :domain,     "domain.com"
set :deploy_to,  "/home/username/deployments/app"
puts "Production deployment to #{deploy_to}"
end

I have done "rake prod vlad:setup" already, that's fine. But when calling "rake prod vlad:update", I get the following

A    ...file
Exported revision 14.
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/username/deployments/drupalgestalt/releases/20100503164225/public/system' to     `/home/username/deployments/drupalgestalt/shared/system': No such file or directory
rake aborted!
execution failed with status 1: ssh domain.com ln -s 
/home/username/deployments/app/shared/log 
/home/username/deployments/app/releases/20100503164225/log && ln -s 
/home/username/deployments/app/shared/system 
/home/username/deployments/app/releases/20100503164225/public/system && ln -s     
/home/username/deployments/app/shared/pids 
/home/username/deployments/app/releases/20100503164225/tmp/pids

Apparently it complains when creating the ln, but permissions are all set up fine.

Am I doing anything wrong? I'm just starting with Vlad on the assumption it was super-easy to set up. Had played a bit with cap in the past, and I do like Vlad idea.

Answer 1

It looks like a path error. Try changing your :deploy_to line to the correct path. I'm fairly certain that "/home/username/" is not it.

Answer 2

more specifically... it looks like you're missing the "shared" directory that its trying to symlink to. Do you have the following directory set up?

/home/username/deployments/drupalgestalt/shared/system

And yes, "username" is a problem too. You'll need to update the following line:

set :deploy_to,  "/home/username/deployments/app"

to

set :deploy_to,  "/home/#{username}/deployments/#{application}"