Deploying with Inploy - An alternative to Capistrano

Inploy is similar to Capistrano but easier - it has better defaults and it is more forgiving when you don’t know what you’re doing (me).

Inploy on your development machine:

Create deploy.rb under your app’s config directory. The basic config/deploy.rb file:

application = "test"
repository = 'git@git.assembla.com:my-apps-repo.git'
hosts = ['zer1']
path = '/home/deploy'

Notes on deploy.rb:

default user is ‘deploy’
deploys to #{path}/#{application}
Inploy’s hosts will look to your development machine’s .ssh/config (so add your production server)

Inploy commands:

Pull the app from repo, bundle install, create database, migrate:

Once you’re setup, you can update your app and repo:

That’s it! You can learn more about Inploy on Github.

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