Drupal Deploy (Based off of Lee Hambley's Railsless Deploy)

If you want a way to deploy your drupal code, copy files/ directory (and back it up), and dump and import your development database to another server (and back it up!) all by with 'cap deploy', this is for you.

Installation

$ gem install drupal-deploy

Dependencies

capistrano-ext, the multi-stage extension for Capistrano, will be checked for while installing this.

Usage

Begin your application's Capfile like this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'drupal-deploy'
load    'config/deploy'

Be sure to remove the original require 'deploy' as this is where the standard tasks are defined. You don't want to use those.

Now proceed as you normally would. I really, really recommend looking through the tasks that come with this, though.

Get a full task list with cap -T

Assumptions

This deploy strategy makes a bunch of assumptions which you may or may not like:

• You have drush installed on your remote server(s)
• Your files/ directory is in the standard location, sites/default
• Your site's code lives in a directory named drupal/

Your site's directory structure should resemble this:

    my_website/
    `- .git/
    `- .gitignore
    `- Capfile
    `- config/
        `- deploy.rb
        `- deploy/
            `- staging.rb
            `- production.rb
    `- drupal/
        `- <drupal files>

What's Included?

If you want to try before you buy, here's the list of tasks included with this version of the deploy recipe:

    cap deploy                    # Deploys your project.
    cap deploy:check              # Test deployment dependencies.
    cap deploy:cleanup            # Clean up old releases.
    cap deploy:db                 # Dumps and imports the development database to your live site
    cap deploy:db:pull            # Dumps and imports the live database to the development site
    cap deploy:files              # Copies the files directory from development to live
    cap deploy:files:pull         # Pull the files directory from the live server to development
    cap deploy:pending            # Displays the commits since your last deploy.
    cap deploy:pending:diff       # Displays the `diff' since your last deploy.
    cap deploy:pull               # Pull the database and files directory from your primary server to your secondary server
    cap deploy:rollback           # Rolls back to a previous version and restarts.
    cap deploy:setup              # Prepares one or more servers for deployment.
    cap deploy:update             # Copies your project and updates the symlink.
    cap deploy:update_code        # Copies your project to the remote servers.
    cap deploy:upload             # Copy files to the currently deployed version.
    cap drupal:configure:settings # Copy the appropriate settings.php file.
    cap drupal:symlink:webapp     # Symlink the website
    cap invoke                    # Invoke a single command on the remote servers.
    cap shell                     # Begin an interactive Capistrano session.

I recommend running cap -vT too and looking through everything. There are a bunch of internal tasks at work.

Bugs & Feedback

Questions? Feedback? Love it? Hate it? Want to fix it? Anything else? Let me know.

http://github.com/jh3