Question

Especially when considering a fresh Rails project, what does your version control and deployment workflow look like? What tools do you use?

I’m interested in answers for Mac, *nix and Windows work machines. Assume a *nix server.

I’ll edit for clarity if need be.

Answer 1

1. Create a copy of my personal Rails 2.1.1 template with preinstalled plugins and frozen gems.
2. Change DB passwords, session secret/name and deploy.rb.
3. Create a private or public repository on GitHub as needed.
4. Push the empty rails project to GitHub.
5. SSH to Server and configure apache (copy Virtual Host file and mongrel config files from old project)
6. Create empty database on MySQL server
7. cap deploy:setup && cap deploy:cold

If everything works so far: Start developing and committing to GitHub. cap deploy as needed.

Update: Don’t forget to write tests for everything you do!