Question

How would I go about this?

I have a mostly static site, which is being hosted on a cheap web-host, which only allows FTP access to the hosting. The site is tracked in git. I am using OS X.

I would like to upload a new version of the site by simply doing cap deploy

Answer 1

We use capistrano to deploy our site which is written in PHP.

From memory (I’m not at work right now) we overload deploy and used rsync to sync over sftp. Something like this:

desc 'Sync' namespace :deploy do    desc 'Sync remote by default'   task :default do     remote.default   end    namespace :remote do        desc 'Sync to remote server'       task :default do           `rsync -avz '/path/to/webapp' '#{remote_host}:#{remote_root}/path/to/webapp'`       end   end end 

I’m sure you could replace rsync with whatever an ftp program and it should work fine.