deployment on mediatemple with capistrano and git is not fun but it is more fun than doing your taxes

HAPPY TAX DAY!

Deploying to Media Temple isn’t easy. You have to add a domain, make an alternate domain and configure a lot of things through something called “mtr”. In order to deploy there with capistrano and git I first compiled git on my server to the following location:

/home/####/users/.home/usr/bin/git

Then I capify my project and copy in the below deploy.rb with my custom settings and passwords. There are some tasks included such as mtr_init, mtr_generate_htaccess and mtr_create_link that help with media temple commands.

 

deploy.rb:

require 'mt-capistrano'

#gem install mt-capistrano --source=http://gems.mediatemple.net/

 

set :site,         "SITE_NUMBER (4 digits probably)"

set :application,  "APPLICATION"

set :webpath,      "APPLICATION.com"

set :domain,       "MEDIA TEMPLE DOMAIN"

set :user,         "MEDIA TEMPLE USER"

set :password,     "MEDIA TEMPLE PASSWORD"

 

set :scm, :git

set :scm_command, "/home/####/users/.home/usr/bin/git"

set :repository, "git://github.com/ckhsponge/remindblast.git"

set :deploy_to,  "/home/#{site}/containers/rails/#{application}"

set :current_deploy_dir, "#{deploy_to}/current"

set :tmp_dir, "#{deploy_to}/tmp"

 

set :checkout, "export"

 

role :web, "#{domain}"

role :app, "#{domain}"

role :db,  "#{domain}", :primary => true

 

task :after_update_code, :roles => :app do

  put(File.read('config/database.yml'), "#{release_path}/config/database.yml", :mode => 0444)

end

 

task :mtr_init, :roles => :app do

  run "cd $HOME/../../containers && mkdir -p rails && cd rails && mkdir -p #{application} && cd #{application} && mkdir -p current && cd current && mtr add #{application} $PWD #{webpath}"

  run "mkdir -p $HOME/../../containers/rails/#{application}/shared"

  run "mkdir -p $HOME/../../containers/rails/#{application}/shared/log"

end

 

task :mtr_create_link, :roles => :app do

  run "mtr create_link #{application}"

end

 

namespace :deploy do

task :restart, :roles => :app do

  #run "mtr restart #{application} -u #{user} -p #{password}"

  #run "mtr generate_htaccess #{application} -u #{user} -p #{password}"

  run "mtr restart #{application} -u #{user} -p #{password}"

  run "mtr generate_htaccess #{application} -u #{user} -p #{password}"

  #migrate

end

end