Thanks for the info! I’ll have to look into this very soon.

Hold on to your chairs. Geoffrey continues to rock the world.

Thanks much, I’ll be using this shortly.

A couple things I had to change: I had to remove my server name from all the paths, svn+ssh:// only has two backslashes, not three, and I had to remove my application directory such as ”~/application.domain.com” before I ran the rake commands in order for them to function properly. Hope this helps someone!

Yes this was extremely helpful. Couple questions though.

I’m having no luck with rold :db. I was guessing there is no SSH processing running on my MySQL server (which is a seperate server for my DreamHost account).

Anyone else have any issues with this portion?

Also, I don’t seem to have a ‘reaper’ script? Did anyone else have problems with this portion of deploy.rb?

desc “Restart the FCGI processes on the app server as a regular user.” task :restart, :roles => :app do run ”#{current_path}/script/process/reaper” end

Made some progress on this.

I’m still not sure if role :db is working. I’m guessing it’s only involved if there is a migration to do. I’ve tried SSH’ing to my MySQL server with no luck.

I figured out that reaper is a script included with Rails. The reason I was seeing problems with it was permissions.

Also I had to update dispatch* permissions.

Here’s what I had to add to deploy.rb:

desc “set some permissions” task :after_update_code, :roles => :app do run “chmod +x #{release_path}/public/dispatch” run “chmod +x #{release_path}/script/process/” end

I came across this recently and it was a huge help, thanks!

I took the time to get SwitchTower running on my DreamHost account today. I ran into several problems, but it now works great. Details at my blog…

how do you people run darcs on dreamhost? when i try to use it, it is always killed automatically after a while because of its cpu usage…

umm, sorry. wrong post…