Deploying a Git subdirectory in Capistrano

Question

My master branch layout is like this:

/ <-- top level

/client <-- desktop client source files

/server

Answer 1

This has been working for me for a few hours.

# Capistrano assumes that the repository root is Rails.root
namespace :uploads do
  # We have the Rails application in a subdirectory rails_app
  # Capistrano doesn't provide an elegant way to deal with that
  # for the git case. (For subversion it is straightforward.)
  task :mv_rails_app_dir, :roles => :app do
    run "mv #{release_path}/rails_app/* #{release_path}/ "
  end
end

before 'deploy:finalize_update', 'uploads:mv_rails_app_dir'

You might declare a variable for the directory (here rails_app).

Let's see how robust it is. Using "before" is pretty weak.