Ask YC: Best Tools, books to learn more about build, deployment process
What are the tools you use for one step build, depolyment ? I am mainly interested in applications written in Python, PHP and Ruby.
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Django (Python) - http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter20/
I have used <a href="http://www.capify.org/">capistrano</a> to deploy both php and rails applications, it works with merb, and probably camping and rack.
You need it check into some sort of SCM, then setup some ssh keys and put in your server settings. Then you can deploy it out.
It does take a little getting use to, but it helps greatly once you set it up correctly. It's a build and push to server sort of setup. It's great.
On the python front, i wouldn't know, but the newer capistrano seems more open to different types of code-bases.
If capistrano doesn't suit you, you can always build up some nice rake tasks that automate it for you.
just my thoughts :)
You need it check into some sort of SCM, then setup some ssh keys and put in your server settings. Then you can deploy it out.
It does take a little getting use to, but it helps greatly once you set it up correctly. It's a build and push to server sort of setup. It's great.
On the python front, i wouldn't know, but the newer capistrano seems more open to different types of code-bases.
If capistrano doesn't suit you, you can always build up some nice rake tasks that automate it for you.
just my thoughts :)
PHP has Phing, which is based off of Ant (from the Java world).
For Ruby, there's Rakefiles and Capistrano for web app projects. There's also Vlad the Deployer which is more lightweight. For Rails, there's a continuous integration plugin which you could use to monitor your unit tests.
If it's not a large project, you might consider just writing your own tasks to automate the process (ssh'in and svn up or hg pull/up). But if you need the ability to rollback or to make sure all your unit tests pass first, go for Capistrano or Vlad.
People have used Capistrano for Python web apps too.
For Ruby, there's Rakefiles and Capistrano for web app projects. There's also Vlad the Deployer which is more lightweight. For Rails, there's a continuous integration plugin which you could use to monitor your unit tests.
If it's not a large project, you might consider just writing your own tasks to automate the process (ssh'in and svn up or hg pull/up). But if you need the ability to rollback or to make sure all your unit tests pass first, go for Capistrano or Vlad.
People have used Capistrano for Python web apps too.
Cal Henderson gave a pretty good talk at FOWA Miami that involved some talk about how Flickr does their deployment, you can listen to the mp3 here: http://cdn4.libsyn.com/carsonsystems/Cal_Henderson.mp3
deployment stuff is about 3/4 of the way through if i remember correctly.
deployment stuff is about 3/4 of the way through if i remember correctly.
Capistrano is great for deployment. I'm not sure what you mean by 'building'. These are scripting languages...