Apt-Fu¶ ↑

Package a rails project to a debian .deb file for easy deployment!

This simple rails plugin adds 3 rake tasks to your project:

rake deb:create                           # Create a deb file from the rails package
rake deb:deploy                           # Deploy
rake deb:vdeploy                          # Deploy to vserver

I find it convenient to sometimes not allow access to the version control server for a production server. This plugin packages a rails project into a .deb file without any dependencies on debian tools. Yes, it runs on OS X!

Future work:¶ ↑

* Add a preinst script that empties the code diretories in the app before moving in the new stuff. Now only new stuff is added.

* Specify debian dependencies

* Configuration in yaml

Credits¶ ↑

Greatly inspired by:

synthesize.us/HOWTO_make_a_deb_archive_without_dpkg