Any capistrano comparable for windows/.net?
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deployment
Deploying a Git subdirectory in Capistrano
My master branch layout is like this: / <-- top level /client <-desktop client source files /server <- Rails app What I'd like to do is only pull down the /server directory in my deploy.rb, but I can't seem to find any way to do that. The /client directory is huge, so setting up a hook to copy /server to / won't work very well, it ne...
Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems
I'm deploying to Ubuntu slice on slicehost, using Rails 2.1.0 (from gem) If I try mongrel_rails start or script/server I get error: Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems When I type gem-v i have 1.2.0. Any quick tips on what to look at to fix? ...
Software Deployment in a Virtual Environment
I'm looking for a way to give out preview or demo versions of our software to our customers as easy as possible. The software we are currently developing is a pretty big project. It consists of a client environment, an application server, various databases, web services host etc. The project is developed incrementally and we want to shi...
Install-base of Java JRE?
Is there an online resource somewhere that maintains statistics on the install-base of Java including JRE version information? If not, is there any recent report that has some numbers? I'm particularly interested in Windows users, but all other OSs are welcome too. ...
Deployment tool for LAMP
Are there any good deployment tools that can be used with LAMP and Subversion? Ideally it would handle both code updates and database migrations. ...
How can I use `scp` to deploy a website's `.htaccess` file?
I am currently using the following command to upload my site content: scp -r web/* [email protected]:site.com/ This works great except that the .htaccess file is not sent. Presumably, this is because it's hidden. I have tried adding a second line to send the file explicitely: scp -r web/.htaccess [email protected]:site.com/.htaccess This ...
How do I detect if a function is available during JNLP execution?
I have an application which really should be installed, but does work fine when deployed using JNLP. However, it would seem that some Java functions such as Runtime.exec don't work using the default security options. I would like to therefore disable UI functionality that relies upon such functions. So my question is, how do I detect a...
ASP.NET MVC on IIS6
Where can I find some good pointers on best practices for running ASP.NET MVC on IIS6? I haven't seen any realistic options for web-hosts who provide IIS7-hosting yet. Mostly because I don't live in the U.S. So I was wondering on how you best build applications in ASP.NET MVC and make it easily available to deploy on both IIS6 and IIS7...
Alternative to HttpUtility for .NET 3.5 SP1 client framework?
It'd be really nice to target my Windows Forms app to the .NET 3.5 SP1 client framework. But, right now I'm using the HttpUtility.HtmlDecode and HttpUtility.UrlDecode functions, and the MSDN documentation doesn't point to any alternatives inside of, say, System.Net or something. So, short from reflectoring the source code and copying it...
Do you use Phing?
Does anyone use Phing to deploy PHP applications, and if so how do you use it? We currently have a hand-written "setup" script that we run whenever we deploy a new instance of our project. We just checkout from SVN and run it. It sets some basic configuration variables, installs or reloads the database, and generates a v-host for the sit...
How do you update your web application on the server?
I am aware of Capistrano but it is a bit too heavyweight for me. Personally I set up two Mercurial repositories, one on the production server and another on my local dev machine. Regularly, when a new feature is ready, I push changes from repository on my local machine to repository on the server, then update on the server. This is prett...
Is .NET 3.5 SP1 Required on the server to use Dynamic Data?
Is .NET 3.5 SP1 Required on the server to use Dynamic Data? It looks like it generates a lot of code and therefore wouldn't require anything special on the server side. I ask because I would like to use it but the shared hosting provider my client is using only have 3.5 installed and not 3.5 SP1. ...
Do I need a Mac to make a Java application bundle?
I want to create a Java application bundle for Mac without using Mac. According to Java Deployment Options for Mac OS X, I can do this by using Xcode, Jar Bundler, or from the command line. Once the files and folders are set up, all I need for the command line method is to call /Developer/Tools/SetFile. Is there a SetFile clone on Linux...
Subversion Partial Export
I have somewhat interesting development situation. The client and deployment server are inside a firewall without access to the Subversion server. But the developers are outside the firewall and are able to use the Subversion server. Right now the solution I have worked out is to update my local copy of the code and then pull out the mos...
What is a good deployment tool for websites on Windows?
I'm looking for something that can copy (preferably only changed) files from a development machine to a staging machine and finally to a set of production machines. A "what if" mode would be nice as would the capability to "rollback" the last deployment. Database migrations aren't a necessary feature. UPDATE: A free/low-cost tool w...
Automate Deployment for Web Applications?
My team is currently trying to automate the deployment of our .Net and PHP web applications. We want to streamline deployments, and to avoid the hassle and many of the headaches caused by doing it manually. We require a solution that will enable us to: Compile the application Version the application with the SVN version number Backu...
What is the best way to set the permissions for a specific user on a specific folder on a remote machine?
We have a deployment system at my office where we can automatically deploy a given build of our code to a specified dev environment (dev01, dev02, etc.). These dev environments are generalized virtual machines, so our system has to configure them automatically. We have a new system requirement with our next version; we need to give certa...
How do I turn a python program into an .egg file?
How do I turn a python program into an .egg file? ...
Deploying a project using LINQ to SQL
I am working on a winforms application using LINQ to SQL - and am building the app using a SQL Express instance on my workstation. The final installation of the project will be on a proper SQL Server 2005. The database has the same name, and all tables are identical but the hostname is different. The only way I have found to make my...