Capistrano::SqliteReuse

Capistrano tasks for handling sqlite dbs when deploying Rails 4+ apps.

Install

Add this to Gemfile:

group :development do
  gem 'capistrano', '~> 3.2.1'
  gem 'capistrano-sqlite-reuse', '~> 1.0.0'
end

And then:

$ bundle install

Setup and usage

• add to Capfile:

  require 'capistrano/sqlite-reuse'
  

You can now proceed with other deployment tasks.

How it works

On deployment:

• we look for database.yml file to read the database location on the server
  
• if it exists, we add to linked files
  
• if not we look for file in current deployment, if it exists, we copy to shared and add to linked
  
• if nothing exists, then we allow database to be generated normally and it will be shared on next deploy.