[web2py] Re: web2py and mercurial workflow question

2011-08-04 Thread pbreit
Don't be too frightened by Fabric. I'm a complete newbie and got it working pretty quickly. Just keep it simple. It's really just a substitute for constantly ssh-ing in to your server and issuing a bunch of commands.

[web2py] Re: web2py and mercurial workflow question

2011-08-04 Thread Eric Scott
Thank you Chris, Richard, and pbreit for your excellent input. Good to know I'm heading in the right direction. I'll definitely look into Fabric. Sounds like if I can gain some fluency in Fabric, it will allow me a lot more control over deployment. Thanks again, Eric On Aug 3, 5:40 pm, Chris

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py and mercurial workflow question

2011-08-03 Thread Christopher Steel
I really enjoy the mercurial / fabric combo as well and I agree with pbreit, start with the basics and build on that over time. On my development system I clone Web2py itself and then in the applciations directory I create clones of my projects as well. Makes for very fast setup. You can save y

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py and mercurial workflow question

2011-08-03 Thread pbreit
Well, Fabric itself pure Python and fabfiles are Python but yes, it's mainly making shell commands. I find that a lot better since that's usually how documentation shows a lot of these things. You don't end up doing anything too crazy. Just a lot of cd, cp, mv, hg, rm, chown, etc. Yes, you can

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py and mercurial workflow question

2011-08-03 Thread Richard Vézina
Can you manage the web2py version change with Fabric too? Richard On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Richard Vézina wrote: > Thank pbreit, > > I will look at it... > > I would prefer stay in python then have to bash script... > > http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.2.0/index.html > > Richard > > > On Wed,

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py and mercurial workflow question

2011-08-03 Thread Richard Vézina
Thank pbreit, I will look at it... I would prefer stay in python then have to bash script... http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.2.0/index.html Richard On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:54 PM, pbreit wrote: > I pretty much do exactly what you describe (pricetack.com). > > The one main difference is that I u

[web2py] Re: web2py and mercurial workflow question

2011-08-03 Thread pbreit
I pretty much do exactly what you describe (pricetack.com). The one main difference is that I use Fabric to script my deployment activities. I highly recommend checking out Fabric if you are planning to develop web apps. It's pretty easy to get started and use. I have Fabric scripts that build