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I have a project which has the codes in github (a private repo), I am looking for a good way to deployments for this.

I know capistrano, but not sure whether there are any better solutions, wanting to check other opinions :)

any help is highly appreciated

nivanka
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    Have you had a look at the existing topics? http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bphp%5D+deploy – deceze Nov 29 '11 at 03:35
  • I thought of going forward with capistrano for this, I will post my build file here (without the server details and the project details ) and this link [http://help.github.com/deploy-with-capistrano/][1] [1]: http://help.github.com/deploy-with-capistrano/ was a help – nivanka Nov 29 '11 at 04:19

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I would give Dandelion a shot: https://github.com/scttnlsn/dandelion

Dandelion allows you to push any new git changes to an SFTP or FTP host. Assuming you don't actually need to perform any "deploy" actions other than transferring the source files, it is simpler than using Capistrano. You will need Ruby.

aaron
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  • i need to do this via SSH, so every thing has to happen through SSH, and there is a data base update which I need to run after the codes are copies, a simple shell command in the server's root – nivanka Nov 29 '11 at 03:43
  • sftp operates over ssh. so you could use this and then manually run your command. or use something like Capistrano, or Fabric (a similar tool in Python: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.3.3/index.html) – aaron Nov 29 '11 at 03:47
  • thanks for the info, i didnt know about Fabric, gotta check it out – nivanka Nov 29 '11 at 03:54
  • well after some research I thought of going with capistrano – nivanka Nov 29 '11 at 04:16
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As a PHP developer you may want to look at Phing. It can do a git checkout and deploy using SSH and much more. The big advantage over Capistrano is that it is built with PHP, and may be easier for you and your team.

Steve Robillard
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