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How To Deploy From SVN to Staging and Production Using Ant4CF

I received the following question in email this morning and I thought it would create a pretty good blog entry:

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the meetup presentation for Ant.  I'm getting into SVN and ANT at the moment and was looking for some advice on my setup.

I have a dev server with an SVN repo, a staging server and a live server.  What is the best way to upload changes from dev to staging.  It would be individual files and folders rather than the whole application.  Do you think FTP from the repo to staging, if thats possible?

Many Thanks

This is a variation on a fairly common question I get about how we deploy applications at Alagad.  It seems that a lot of people have applications that are made up of lots of files.  I get the impression that they're used to working in an environment where, when deploying their application, they only deploy the files that have been modified. 

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Deploying ColdFusion Applications with Ant Recording and Materials

I've promised multiple times (CFUnited, CFinNC, and now CF Meetup) to post the materials for my Deploying ColdFusion Applications with Ant presentation.  I've finally done that and they can be downloaded here.

Also, those who want to, can see the recorded presentation here.

Those who are interested can get started with Ant4CF by downloading it from RiaForge.  The documentation is pretty good, so hopefully that'll get you started.  But, if not, we have a mailing list!

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Deploying ColdFusion Applications with Ant on CFMeetup Tomorrow

I'll be giving my presentation on Apache Ant and how it can be used to deploy ColdFusion applications tomorrow, Thursday, November 29th at 12:00 ET. 

This presentation is the same one I gave at CFUnited 09 and CFinNC.  In it I give a brief tour of Ant and then show how it can be used to improve the deployment process of a typical ColdFusion application.  I'll also show and discuss an example using my Ant4CF project.

Frankly, I think this may be one of my better presentations.  It has gone over fairly well (despite technical problems at CFUnited) and I feel really good about the topic.

Be there or be square! 

For more information visit this link: http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/11696775/

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Ant4CF Mailing List Created

I probably should have created a mailing list for Ant4CF when it was released, but I just never thought of it.  There seems to be a good bit of interested in the project so I’ve gone ahead and created a Google Group for it.  Here is the information for the group:

Homepage: http://groups.google.com/group/ant4cf

Group email: ant4cf@googlegroups.com

I’ll try to answer question right away as we get started on the list, but I’m hoping others will be able to chime in as well (at least eventually)!

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A Few Ant4CF 'Gotchas'

I have been using Ant, is some form or another, for project deployment for quite sometime.  Recently, we released Ant4CF, which I love using, as it makse the process of updatign yoru deployment scripts much easier than the process I was following. However, there were a few unexpected behaviors I ran into when settign up Ant4CF the first time.

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