Question

I’ve an issue at the moment where we are running a CMS within a site
(browsercms) that lets the user upload files. However, every time I
do a deploy Capistrano runs a hard reset thus nuking any uploaded
files.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to prevent the hard reset,
and just do a pull, or a way of moving the uploaded files elsewhere,
without having to change the application code?

Answer 1

This might not be the right approach.

You should include your ‘images’ folder in your .gitignore and symlink the $current_release/images folder to $shared/images.

This may be done automatically on every deployment if you put in your deploy.rb:

task :link_imgs do     
  run "ln -s #{shared_path}/photos #{release_path}/photos" 
end    

after "deploy:update_code", :link_imgs

I’ve done the same with my CMS and it works like a charm