Mina::Rsync for Mina

Deploy with Rsync to your server from any local (or remote) repository when using Mina.
Saves you from having to install Git on your production machine and allows you to customize which files you want to deploy. Also allows you to easily precompile things on your local machine before deploying.

Tour

• Suitable for deploying any apps, be it Ruby, Rails, Node.js or others.
• Exclude files from being deployed with Rsync's --exclude options.
• Precompile files or assets easily before deploying, like JavaScript or CSS.
• Caches your previously deployed code to speed up deployments ~1337%.
• Currently works only with Git, so please shout out your interest in other SCMs.

Using

Install with:

gem install mina-rsync

Require it at the top of your Minafile (or config/deploy.rb):

require "mina/rsync"

Set some rsync_options to your liking:

set :rsync_options, %w[--recursive --delete --delete-excluded --exclude .git*]

Then invoke Mina::Rsync's tasks from your deploy task:

task :deploy do
  deploy do
    invoke "rsync:deploy"
  end
end

And after setting regular Mina options, deploy as usual!

mina deploy

Implementation

1. Clones and updates your repository to rsync_stage (defaults to tmp/deploy) on your local machine.
2. Checks out the branch set in the branch variable (defaults to master).
3. Rsyncs to rsync_cache (defaults to shared/deploy) on the server.
4. Copies the content of the cache directory to the build directory.

After that, Mina takes over and runs its usual tasks and symlinking.

Excluding files from being deployed

If you don't want to deploy everything you've committed to your repository, pass some --exclude options to Rsync:

set :rsync_options, %w[
  --recursive --delete --delete-excluded
  --exclude .git*
  --exclude /config/database.yml
  --exclude /test/***
]

Precompile assets before deploy

Mina::Rsync runs rsync:stage before rsyncing. Hook to that like this:

task :precompile do
  Dir.chdir settings.rsync_stage do
    system "rake", "assets:precompile"
  end
end

task "rsync:stage" do
  invoke "precompile"
end

Configuration

Set Mina variables with set name, value.

Name	Default	Description
repository	.	The path or URL to a Git repository to clone from.
branch	master	The Git branch to checkout.
rsync_stage	tmp/deploy	Path where to clone your repository for staging, checkouting and rsyncing. Can be both relative or absolute.
rsync_cache	shared/deploy	Path where to cache your repository on the server to avoid rsyncing from scratch each time. Can be both relative or absolute.
rsync_options	[]	Array of options to pass to rsync.
rsync_copy	rsync --archive --acls --xattrs	Command used to copy files from the cache directory to the build path on the server.

License

Mina::Rsync is released under a Lesser GNU Affero General Public License, which in summary means:

• You can use this program for no cost.
• You can use this program for both personal and commercial reasons.
• You do not have to share your own program's code which uses this program.
• You have to share modifications (e.g bug-fixes) you've made to this program.

For more convoluted language, see the LICENSE file.

About

Andri Möll made this happen.
Monday Calendar was the reason I needed this.

If you find Mina::Rsync needs improving, please don't hesitate to type to me now at andri@dot.ee or create an issue online.