Django site updater

[kooliah]

I'm working on a new site and i have often the need to update the server
to let other people see the progress.
I tought to do a python script that compare the file structure/date/time
of my local version with the server version and update only the
changed/new files.
Before starting, and according to the DRY principle :-), I would like to
know if there is already something like that.

[Aaron C. de Bruyn]

Sounds like you might benefit from Fabric.
Fabric lets you define a repeatable process (in Python) for deploying
your website to a server.

-A

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[Kurtis Mullins]

We use a versioning system (Subversion to be precise, git or mercurial
would probably be better for you). Then I commit everything to the
main repository and just checkout (update after the initial checkout)
on the development server. It's not too bad of a system although I
still have to go onto the server and type in "svn update" all of the
time (plus /etc/init.d/uwsgi restart since I run it behind nginx)

[Tanuva]

You could checkout your project from the repository onto the server -
assuming you are using version control. Alternatively, you might like rsync.

Marcel

[bruno desthuilliers]

git (or whatever versioning system you're using) + South for schema
migrations + virtualenv / pip for depencies + a simple shell script on
the server to update the whole damn thing and restart services
(Apache, whatever). You can even have the script run by a cron job so
the server is updated every night.

[Alexis Bellido]

I use Fabric to automate as much as possible, not only for production but also for my development and staging environments.

I have shared some code in github:

https://github.com/alexisbellido/The-Django-gunicorn-fabfile-project

I'm currently finishing some changes for making this code more flexible and working with Django 1.4, where the project's directory layout has changed a bit.

[Mike Dewhirst]

I use buildbot to export the code from svn whenever I commit to trunk.
It also performs other related tasks such as deleting the entire site
first then running tests, compiling to .pyc, deleting source, chowning
and chmoding etc.

I really like buildbot because you can add programmed (in Python) steps
to do anything you like.

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[kooliah]

Tahnk you to everyone, i solved using git.
I made a remote git repository on the server to which i commit and push
from local, then I open a ssh session and pull/fetch to deploing folder

Thanks again