Comments on: Stop uploaded files getting ‘deleted’ with Capistrano

By: Greg H

Greg H — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:49:15 +0000

hi David,

thanks for the info - between this and the capistrano source I figured out how to make my assets directory persistent.

for anyone stumbling in, the file callbacks.rb in capistrano 2.4.3 suggests that tasks named ‘after_xxx’ and ‘before_xxx’ aren’t recommended - instead, the before and after methods should be used.

so, here’s my task for symlinking an assets directory;

namespace :deploy do
#desc “Symlink assets directory from latest release (*)”
task :finalise_update_assets, :except => { :no_release => true } do
run “ln -s #{shared_path}/assets #{latest_release}/public/assets”
end
end
after “deploy:finalize_update”, “deploy:finalise_update_assets”

By: Alastair

Alastair — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:35:13 +0000

Hey David, you’re right about setting svn ignore on the local uploads directory. I should have mentioned that for every site I set up right after the initial svn check in I set all ‘dynamic’ directories to be ignored. Hopefully that will fix it for you.

By: David

David — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:30:13 +0000

I can’t seem to get this to work either. My problem is similar to Greg’s. Is there anything else that needs to be done? Permissions? Do I need to svn ignore the local uploads directory?

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:31:34 +0000

I can’t seem to get this to work… Is there any reason why copying all of my files to the new release directory wouldn’t work (it doesn’t…)? How would I go about making sure the symlink is actually being created there on the server? After deploying, the files are still ending up in the release directory and not the shared/system folder ;(

It’s rather late right now, so advanced apologies if this doesn’t make any sense.

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By: marius

marius — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:59:25 +0000

THANKS MAN!