Chris, are you familiar with https://github.com/mislav/git-deploy ?
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Chris Berkhout <chrisberkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to improve my setup for deploying to a VPS and have run > into a few questions. > > The general idea is to be able to do a git push to an account on the > VPS and have git hooks do anything necessary on the server side to > redeploy. > > I think some people just have one copy of the app, and when there is > an update, it's just a git pull/checkout into that live directory. > If some updated files are written before others, I guess that would be > okay because running in production they wouldn't be reloaded until the > server is restarted (at least for code files). Is that right? Is it > worth having a Capistrano-style multiple version and symlink setup? > > If migrations need to be done and the old code is incompatible with > the new DB schema, would the normal course of action for a low-traffic > app or an app with periods of low traffic be to take it offline during > the migration? In an automated setup, would it be normal to assume > that there are incompatibilities whenever there is a migration? > > In a bigger setup, with multiple servers accessing a DB and downtime > being unacceptable, how would you migrate between conflicting schemas? > I've been led to believe there is a way, but the best I can think of > is tricks like breaking down the migration into smaller parts that are > not incompatible. E.g. rather than radically changing a table in one > step, have an intermediate step with code that continues to use the > old table, but migrates individual rows to a new table as they are > used, then once all data is across do a final redeploy and migration > that leaves clean final code and deletes the old table. > Is there some non-tricksy way I'm missing? > > Cheers, > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- http://awesomebydesign.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
