Cadillac Edge Deploy

Is your deployed rails application frozen to a particular revision? If so, when a new version of rails is released how easy is it for you to upgrade?

Are you living on the edge of rails? If so, how do you move to a more recent revision when you notice an enhancement you want to take advantage of?

Switching to a different version of rails should be easy.

Mike Clark described a number of ways to manage your rails versions in this blog post:

Mike wrote of a “Cadillac Approach” in referring to Rick Olson’s code that makes managing rails versions quite cinchy.

This plugin is basically a rip-off of that blog post and Rick’s code.

I refactored things a bit primarily because I needed the approach to work even if Rails wasn’t installed on the server I was deploying to.

Example

To use the plugin, all you need to do is add the following to your deploy.rb:

set :rails_revision, 6651

Homepage: http://geekblog.codora.com/2007/5/3/rails-plugin-cadillacedgedeploy

Duff OMelia