Question

I have a git repository both on GitHub and on my private Amazon instance and with a unique commit I update both.

There is a way to commit the file database.yml only to my private repository and not on GitHub?

If could help, I’m using Capistrano for deployment.

Answer 1

In the past days I found no answer to this question, but then I solved my problem, so I’ll say what I’ve done to have things working.

Since I don’t have to modify the file database.yml, I solved my problem manually copying it to my Amazon instance and adding it to .gitignore.

Then, I added a task in deploy.rb to link database.yml to the current directory of deployment

# copy db config
after "deploy:update_code", :copy_db_config
desc "copy db config file"
task :copy_db_config do
  run "ln -s ~/path/where/I/copied/database.yml #{release_path}/config/database.yml"
end

Hope this help.