[Rails] Re: Updating an Application

2010-05-04 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
Doug Jolley wrote: >> Why do you need this system rather than just pulling down the latest >> version from source control ? > > Because there are some files that may have been modified with customer- > specific code. We never want to overwrite these files. However, if a > file in this group does

[Rails] Re: Updating an Application

2010-05-03 Thread Frederick Cheung
On May 3, 5:14 pm, Michael Pavling wrote: > I'd suggest a review of your internal processes with all the > developers, PMs and other stakeholders to discuss how to manage code > deployment. As a suggestion, I'd recommend a branch of your code for > each of your deployed client sites. Using Git/Mer

Re: [Rails] Re: Updating an Application

2010-05-03 Thread Michael Pavling
On 3 May 2010 17:02, doug wrote: >> Why do you need this system rather than just pulling down the latest >> version from source control ? > > Because there are some files that may have been modified with customer- > specific code.  We never want to overwrite these files.  However, if a > file in t

[Rails] Re: Updating an Application

2010-05-03 Thread doug
> But if you *must* do something like the above, it's called `rsync` and > it handles case #3 as well. I'm going to look into this. Thanks for the suggestion. ... doug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to

[Rails] Re: Updating an Application

2010-05-03 Thread doug
> Why do you need this system rather than just pulling down the latest > version from source control ? Because there are some files that may have been modified with customer- specific code. We never want to overwrite these files. However, if a file in this group doesn't exist on the system being

[Rails] Re: Updating an Application

2010-05-01 Thread Frederick Cheung
On May 1, 2:13 am, doug wrote: > I have deployed several instances of a Rails application.  I am now > considering how I might apply application updates to each of the > various instances.  I would like the updates to be contained in some > sort of an archive like a tar archive.  There are two t