How/Where would I set migrations to run on each deploy?

[louisl]

I have everything working nicely but I have to ssh in to run the migrations at the moment.

[tedslittlerobot]

You can set arbitrary commands to run at certain points in the deployment process.

In your config/deploy.rb file:

namespace :deploy do

  after :updated, :migrate do
    on roles(:all) do
      within release_path do
        execute :php, :artisan, :migrate, fetch(:laravel_artisan_flags), '--force'
      end
    end
  end

end

[louisl]

Thanks for the info.

[tedslittlerobot]

was in a rush the other day, but to give a bit more information around what this solution does:

in the following snippet:

after :updated, :migrate do

• you can call after or before
• :updated is the name of the event you want to run this task relative to
• :migrate is the new name of this event that you are defining

So you could then have:

before :migrate, :sometask do
  # something to run before migrations ...
end

Pretty much the only two events i've ever used are:

• after :updated - once the code is on the server, and the basic tasks have been done, but before the new release is live
• after :published - once the new release has been symlinked to be the current release

The default capistrano hooks are here - https://capistranorb.com/documentation/getting-started/flow/ if you want more. This capistrano/laravel package has its own event hooks too (the ones starting with laravel: in https://github.com/capistrano/laravel#tasks)

[louisl]

Thank you for the additional info, that's given me a better understanding of it.