Question

I’m deploying a Ruby on Rails and NodeJS application using Capistrano. The uploads folder gets removed on every deploy.

This popped up on several places but it doesn’t seem to work:

# Keep File Uploads
  task :symlink_uploads do
    run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/rails/uploads  #{release_path}/rails/public/uploads"
  end

  after 'deploy:update_code', 'deploy:symlink_uploads'

the repo:

  repo:
    /node
    /rails

Thanks!

Answer 1

Make sure you remove the existing public/uploads folder, passing -f to ln doesn’t cover removing target directories (or at least hasn’t done so portably for me)

My symlink directories tasks normally look like

task :symlink_uploads do
  run "rm -rf #{release_path}/rails/public/uploads} && ln -nfs #{shared_path}/rails/uploads  #{release_path}/rails/public/uploads"
end

Obviously make sure there is nothing in the checked in version of public/uploads that you need!