capistrano + ftp only hosting provider

The story

You get client, he buys cheap hosting with FTP only. Now in modern times we all use git, VM, some CI and Capistrano to ease work. Oh and FTP?

The solution

Cli ftp client LFTP, hard to understand, but overall great tool. Bellow is my Cap file for such hosts.

config/deploy.rb

#APP
set :application, "GreatWebsite"
set :app_path, "./worpdress/"
set :scm, :none

#FTP
set :login, "great_website"
set :password, "changeme"
set :ftp_host, "www.great_website.squarebox.eu"
set :deploy_to, "/domains/www.great_website.si/public/"

Capfile

load 'config/deploy'

desc "FTP Sync && Mount"
namespace :deploy do

 desc "Sync remote by default"
 task :default do
 remote.default
 end

 namespace :remote do
 desc "Mount remote to local #{application}"
 task :mount do
 `mkdir ./mnt/#{application} -p`
 `curlftpfs ftp://#{login}:#{password}@#{url} ./mnt/#{application}`
 end

 desc "Unmount #{application}"
 task :umount do
 `fusermount -u ./mnt/#{application}`
 end

 desc "Sync to remote server using lftp"
 task :sync do
 `lftp -c "set ftp:list-options -a; open ftp://#{login}:#{password}@#{ftp_host}; lcd #{app_path}; cd #{deploy_to}; mirror --reverse --delete --use-cache --verbose --allow-chown --allow-suid --no-umask --parallel=2 --exclude-glob .git --exclude-glob *.log"`

 end

 desc "Sync app to remote server"
 task :default do
 self.sync
 end
 end

end