Comments on: Capistrano recipe: update your remote shared assets and database to your local application http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/04/15/capistrano-recipe-update-your-remote-shared-assets-and-database-to-your-local-application/ freelance web developer in Chandler, AZ Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:44:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Badreligion http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/04/15/capistrano-recipe-update-your-remote-shared-assets-and-database-to-your-local-application/comment-page-1/#comment-1299 Badreligion Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:28:06 +0000 http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=304#comment-1299 It is nice however coming from a network/system admin there is one major flaw and that is security. Running mysqldump with -ppassword is a very discouraged method. At this point in time I do not have a better suggestion other than using configuration files (one for each database/site) however I can't say that it is a good idea to do that either especially in my case where 30-50+ database passwords are in plain text files. I also prefer to set variables for example remote_db_name once then re-use that variable, it just helps with maintenance down the road. Instead of re-typing remote_settings["database"] over and over especially using interpolation it just gets messy. Between using short options for rsync command and combining some of the pathing into variables I was able to get all the commands onto one line each. Hopefully some day we will figure out how to securely access local and remote databases using mysql via Capistrano, but again as far as I know this or config files (.my.cnf) is as good as it gets. Nice article It is nice however coming from a network/system admin there is one major flaw and that is security. Running mysqldump with -ppassword is a very discouraged method. At this point in time I do not have a better suggestion other than using configuration files (one for each database/site) however I can't say that it is a good idea to do that either especially in my case where 30-50+ database passwords are in plain text files.

I also prefer to set variables for example remote_db_name once then re-use that variable, it just helps with maintenance down the road. Instead of re-typing remote_settings["database"] over and over especially using interpolation it just gets messy. Between using short options for rsync command and combining some of the pathing into variables I was able to get all the commands onto one line each.

Hopefully some day we will figure out how to securely access local and remote databases using mysql via Capistrano, but again as far as I know this or config files (.my.cnf) is as good as it gets.

Nice article

]]> By: John Paul http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/04/15/capistrano-recipe-update-your-remote-shared-assets-and-database-to-your-local-application/comment-page-1/#comment-1241 John Paul Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:31:30 +0000 http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=304#comment-1241 Thanks for the slick script, I wrote something similar to this, but had some issues with getting the remote DB vars. This is a nice and clean implementation! I think I am going to include it in a Capistrano recipe gem I am writing if you don't mind. Thanks for sharing! Thanks for the slick script, I wrote something similar to this, but had some issues with getting the remote DB vars. This is a nice and clean implementation! I think I am going to include it in a Capistrano recipe gem I am writing if you don’t mind.

Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Ben Hughes http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/04/15/capistrano-recipe-update-your-remote-shared-assets-and-database-to-your-local-application/comment-page-1/#comment-1109 Ben Hughes Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:31:18 +0000 http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=304#comment-1109 I'm so glad to have stumbled upon this. I was looking for a nice solution to this for a while; very useful for many of my projects. Thanks! I’m so glad to have stumbled upon this. I was looking for a nice solution to this for a while; very useful for many of my projects. Thanks!

]]> By: hjuskewycz http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/04/15/capistrano-recipe-update-your-remote-shared-assets-and-database-to-your-local-application/comment-page-1/#comment-995 hjuskewycz Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:36:25 +0000 http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=304#comment-995 Looks pretty good, will give it a try later. Thank you! Looks pretty good, will give it a try later. Thank you!

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