Installation

$ gem install caravan

Usage

$ caravan --help

    -s, --source SOURCE_PATH         Source path
    -d, --dest DEST_PATH             Destination path
    -m, --mode DEPLOY_MODE           Deploy mode
    -i, --ignore IGNORE_FILES        Ignore files
    -o, --once                       Deploy for once
    -b, --debug                      Debug mode
    -l, --load YAML_FILE             YAML file (Default: ./caravan.yml)
    -c, --spec SPEC_NAME             Spec name (Default: master)
        --version                    Show version

Examples

Deploy to local directory:

$ caravan -s /path/to/project/. -d /path/to/deploy -m shell

Deploy to remote machines:

$ caravan -s /path/to/project/. -d user@remote_machines:/path/to/deploy -m rsync

Deploy only once:

$ caravan -s /path/to/project/. -d user@remote_machines:/path/to/deploy -m rsync --once

Configuration

Generate default configuration:

$ cd /path/to/src
$ caravan --init

A caravan.yml will be generated as /path/to/src/caravan.yml. You may specify any options in command arguments except source path.

master:
  debug: false
  deploy_mode: rsync_local
  incremental: true
  exclude:
  - ".git"
  - ".svn"

You may also write src and dst to caravan.yml. Hence, deployment made even easier.

$ caravan

caravan.yml can be named as you like. To load your own YAML file, use --load:

$ caravan --load my-caravan.yml

caravan.yml can work with multi specs. The default spec is master and you may declare others.

master:
  src: .
  dst: /path/to/dst
  debug: false
  deploy_mode: rsync_local
  incremental: true
  exclude:
  - ".git"
  - ".svn"
debugmode:
  src: .
  dst: /path/to/dst
  debug: true
  deploy_mode: rsync
  incremental: true

$ caravan -c master
$ caravan -c debugmode

Deploy Modes

• Shell
  • cp in local.
• Secure copy (scp)
  • scp to remote machines, not recommended.
• rsync
  • rsync to remote machines, which is the default and recommended mode because it is incremental. Thus, it performs much better.
• rsync_local
  • rsync in local.

Plan

• Basic watching and deploying
• Exclude watching unwanted files
• caravan.yml for project-specialized configuration
• Callbacks for deployment
  • after_create
  • after_change
  • before_deploy
  • after_deploy
  • before_destroy
• Multiple deployment configurations
• Extension to deploy methods

License

MIT