What are the best practices for releasing code from a development to production server?

Posted by ACSparks on Saturday November 24, 2007 @05:00PM
from the self-post dept.

We are currently using Ant, and were wondering if there is a different way of doing things.

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Re:What are the best practices for releasing code from a dev... by at on Sunday November 25, 2007 @12:41PM (#83343)

http://www.developer.com/open/article.php/998241 gives a decent overview.

My tip is to also track versions of all prod deployments so you know which one was active in production when.

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Re:What are the best practices for releasing code from a dev... by skeevis on Monday November 26, 2007 @07:05PM (#83765)

I was using ant, and hated it. What I do now is check in all code into subversion, then if it's ready for release, tag it, then check out the tag directly onto the production server.

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Re:What are the best practices for releasing code from a dev... by inklesspen on Sunday November 25, 2007 @10:37PM (#83468)

Capistrano is very shiny and nice.

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