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Asset directories and capistrano

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Ruby

I have this public/images/cars directory but it gets overwritten everytime I use “cap deploy”. So in order to have my images/cars directory saved every time, I used this addon for capistrano:

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set :assets, ['images/cars']

namespace :deploy do
  task :after_deploy do
    copy_assets
  end
end

namespace :deploy do
  desc "Link in the production database.yml"
  task :copy_assets do
  self.assets ||= []
    assets.each do |asset|
      run "cp -r #{previous_release}/public/#{asset} #{release_path}/public/#{asset}"
    end
  end
end

Worked like a charm for me!

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