If I have a clone of a git repository as a cached copy on a remote server for capistrano/vlad style deployment, is it better to do A) git archive --format=tar origin/master | (cd #{destination} && tar xf -) or B) cp -R cached-copy #{destination} && rm -Rf #{destination}/.git ? To Clarify, the repository is already on the remote serv...
Hi, I am having a problem with Vlad on windows. After calling rake vlad:deploy I am getting the following: uninitialized constant Fcntl::F_SETFD After googling for a while I figured out that there is problem with open4 gem that is not suitable for Windows and I should use popen4 gem instead. I installed it but nothing has changed. Ho...
I'm starting to use vlad for new deployments and am wondering what's the best way to set it up so I can use the same tasks for my local development and remote production servers? I thought about defining everything as remote tasks then having dev/prod methods which set the domain variable, then I can just call rake dev/prod vlad:do_some...
I'm learning to use vlad the deployer and I've got a question. Since I'm still learning I don't know what is pertinent to the question and what isn't, so please bear with me if I'm a little verbose. I've got 2 environments for a new application (test and production) besides my development machine. I've figured out this way to do the i...
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 :re...
I'm trying to deploy a rails app using vlad the deployer. I'm using nginx and passenger. I have an issue with the vlad:start_app task. When I deploy I get the following issue touch: cannot touch `/var/www/mysite.com/releases/20100623130302/tmp/restart.txt': No such file or directory rake aborted! execution failed with status 1: ssh ...
We're using vlad the deployer for deploying rails apps to production and test servers. All our servers are Ubuntu servers. We have a problem related with linux permissions. Vlad uses ssh to put files on any server, be it production or test. My company has several people, and each one has a different account on each server. On the othe...