Capistrano deploy with two Git repositories

Question

Here's my easy deploy script for my Ruby project.

set :application, "data"

set :repo_url, "git@github-data:MyCompany/api_data.git"

set :deploy_to, '/var/www/data'

append :linked_files, "config/secrets.yml"
append :linked_dirs, "log"

namespace :deploy do
  desc 'Restart application'
  task :restart do
    on roles(:app), in: :sequence, wait: 5 do
      execute :touch, release_path.join('tmp/restart.txt')
    end
  end
end

This works fine but I need to add an additional repo and have that deploy to a subdirectory of the main project. I've tried a few things so far without success. Thanks for any help

Cap 3.8.2

Answer 1

Given it's probably a capistrano limitation I see two possible approaches offhand (there are definatly more)

• Make the sub-project a gem and include it that way
• Use something like Fabric which while python code is more of an iterative scripted deploy tool

Answer 2

Expanding my comment into an answer.

Another option is to deploy the two repositories independently to different folders and use linked_dirs and symlinks to connect the two. I use this method all the time.

Let's say that the release path for your app is $APP_PATH and the release path for your secondary repo is $OTHER_APP_PATH . Let's also assume for the example, that you need the secondary repo to show up at lib/myapp in your app.

I would start by deploying your secondary app to $OTHER_APP_PATH on your server.

Then add append :linked_dirs, 'lib/myapp' to your app's deploy.rb config. When you deploy, you should have an empty folder at $APP_PATH/shared/lib/myapp which is symlinked to from $APP_PATH/current/lib/myapp . Delete that folder ( rmdir $APP_PATH/shared/lib/myapp ) and replace it with a symlink to the current directory of your secondary app ( ln -s $OTHER_APP_PATH/current $APP_PATH/shared/lib/myapp ).

Now the contents of your secondary app should show up in your primary app's lib/myapp folder.