Keep in mind that with such an ANT script, there are dependencies that need to 
be set up in the deploy targets, since changing CF DSNs requires cfadmin API 
access, and deploying SQL Server databases using SQL requires access to XP's to 
manipulate files.

Or so I've heard. :-)


Billy Cravens
[email protected]



On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Shane Heasley wrote:

> We use Jenkins (Hudson) / ANT for builds which makes them a single click 
> process in Eclipse for both dev and staging environments.  
> 
> Works great and is a real time saver.  I didn't set it up but I have worked 
> on ANT to automate our new client set ups and that was very straight forward. 
>  (Fill out a simple form, click "Build" and an entire instance is set up - 
> the code, the database, the IIS integration and the CF DSN).
>  
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Mark Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 9:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [houcfug] moving files from one environment to another
>  
> hey guys,
> 
> For my company, we have 5 developers and we all work remotely. Due to some 
> server relocations and corporate buyouts, our process of moving files from 
> local to test and then to prod has gotten way screwed up.  I am trying to 
> take a step back and re-evaluate everything and see if there is a better way.
> 
> Each developer does work locally, but our code is in a subversion repository 
> on our corporate domain.  We update, make changes and commit as usual.  Our 
> test server and the repo are not on the same domain, so we can't push files 
> from the repo to the test server on commit (this is how we used to do it).  
> We currently have to remote desktop to our test server and drag files over.  
> Its slow,  and files get missed all the time.  Starting to look at Mylyn 
> plugin for eclipse.  It keeps track of files for "tasks" so that when a task 
> is complete, you have a list of all the files changed.  As far as I can tell 
> though, it would still be a manual process to move files to the test server, 
> but at least we'd have an accurate file list.
> 
> After confirming all changes on test, the same process occurs.  Remote 
> desktop to production server and drag new files over.  I know, it sucks, but 
> it is what we are stuck with for the foreseeable future.
> 
> Curious as to what others do and if anyone has a recommendation for something 
> that might improve our flow.   Preferably something that would integrate with 
> eclipse/subsclipse.   Would ANT scripts work?
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> Mark
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