Thursday, July 29th, 2010
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.
And here it is:
# ftp info
host=''
user=''
pass=''
# change dir
cd public/assets/
# compress css
echo 'Compressing CSS'
lessc css/styles.less
cat css/*.css > css/styles.tmp
mv css/styles.tmp css/styles.css
java -jar ~/SRC/yui/yuicompressor.jar css/styles.css -o css/styles.css
# compress js
echo 'Compressing JS'
rm -f js/packaged.js
cat js/*.js > js/packaged.tmp
mv js/packaged.tmp js/packaged.js
java -jar ~/SRC/yui/yuicompressor.jar js/packaged.js -o js/packaged.js
# compress png
echo 'Compressing PNGs'
optipng -o7 image/*.png
# remove logs and caches
echo 'Removing logs and caches'
cd ../
rm system/logs/*
rm system/cache/*
# upload
echo 'Uploading...'
ncftpput -u $user -p $pass -R $host '/www' ./[a-zA-Z0-9]*
#scp -r ./ user@host:~/www
echo 'Done!'
Now of course you can change stuff here and there. Actually, what I’ve done is made a little extension for the SSH uploading bit. Instead of uploading each file by itself, I compress it into a bz2 compressed tarball, upload that, and then decompress it on the server:
echo 'Uploading'
cd ../
tar -cjvvf site.bz2 ./
ssh user@host 'cd ~/www/ && rm -rf ./'
scp site.bz2 user@host:~/www/
ssh user@host 'cd ~/www/ && tar -xvvf site.bz2 && rm site.bz2 && find . -name "._*" -print | xargs rm -Rf'
rm site.bz2 && find . -name ._* | xargs rm -Rf
Now I’m 100% sure this can be tidied up somehow, so feel free to do that and let me know! 
