Don’t get me wrong, I love working with Capistrano, but sometimes it’s a bit over-kill. All I want to do is compress my stuff and just deploy up to a server for the client to see. Also, at times, some clients don’t give me SSH access and I have to use FTP, so it doesn’t quite work.
So, I’ve written my own little deploy script. It may be a bit crap, I don’t really care as it just works. It’s small, uses things like the YUI compressor for concat-ing and compressing CSS and JS; also optipng for downsizing the images; and finally ncftp when SSH isn’t there.
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