From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-12-02T19:38:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent for unix "read" command in rake tasks?

On Dec 2, 2007 11:21 AM, Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:36:11 +0900, Jano Svitok wrote:
>
>
> > You may find subversion (instead of zipping the old sources) and
> > capistrano (for the overall deployment) useful
>
>
> I don't understand how subversion works in conjunction with rails.
> What's being "uploaded"?  One file at a time?  the whole directory?

From what I understand, you don't upload, you do a svn export/checkout
to a directory on the server.
It obviously requires shell access to the webhost, although there are
surely ways how one can manage
without one. The export is usually followed bu running the tests, and
in case of success, replacing
the actual version with the new one, and restarting mongrels.

This is more or less my idea about what capistrano might do. For an
exact description see their page.

Jano