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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!

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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There is another solution to this problem. You can add your uploads dir to Capistrano's shared_children and it will do all the magic automatically. You can find more details in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9710542/835935

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered May 16 '12 at 21:47

ok32

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I also tried this. It would have worked if rails was in the root of the repo. log and system use this, and I suspect their symlink doesn't work either. – CamelCamelCamel May 17 '12 at 00:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '12 at 21:38

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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!

answered May 16 '12 at 21:38

Frederick Cheung

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nope. didn't work. maybe I need to add other stuff? this seems a good approach – CamelCamelCamel May 17 '12 at 02:22
had problems with permissions, did -nFs and also had to remove the uploads folder from the repo. will give you the bounty when i can. – CamelCamelCamel May 17 '12 at 04:23

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '12 at 21:05

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Did you try

after 'deploy:update_code', ':symlink_uploads'

Your :symlink_uploads task is not in a namespace, so rather do the above or put it in a namespace

namespace :deploy do
  task :symlink_uploads do
    # ...
  end
end

answered May 16 '12 at 21:05

Vapire

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Ok, sorry - thought it'd been too easy :) – Vapire May 16 '12 at 21:07

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 16 '12 at 21:57

I have similar problem with uploaded file with my RoR app. This is my capistrano tasks:

...
task :link_public_folder, :roles => [:app, :web] do
    run "mv -u #{release_path}/public/* #{shared_path}/public"
    run "rm -rf #{release_path}/public"
    run "ln -s #{shared_path}/public #{release_path}/public"
  end
  after "deploy:update", "deploy:link_public_folder"

  task :setup_config, :roles => :app do
    sudo "ln -nfs #{current_path}/config/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/#{application}"
    run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/config"
    run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/public"
    put File.read("config/database.yml"), "#{shared_path}/config/database.yml"
    puts "Now edit the config files in #{shared_path}."
  end
  after "deploy:setup", "deploy:setup_config"
...

Maybe help you

Edit: I use Carrierwave too.

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