iPublish is a small program writen in perl to help you publish project's source codes to your production servers. We aim to make publish operation easier and faster when you have many projects to manage.

When you publish your project, iPublish will get a complete source codes(ofcourse not contain your production config files) of your project to a single directory with the name of the version(maybe 2013_01_01), then you can use iPublish to modify the contents of your version file which is read by your project's entry file.

Ok, if you can understand what I said above, you can use iPublish ^-^.

• Install perl dependencies

sudo cpan 
install IO::Pty
install Net::OpenSSH

• Install iPublish commands

Just place bin/iPublish in your $HOME/bin directory, ofcourse you must have add your $HOME/bin to your PATH. Then you can use iPublish as your linux commands.

iPublish have a config file to save your project info, it is default placed in your $HOME directory as the name .iPublish

project {
    name demo;
    version_file /home/www/RELEASE/demo;
    #source_dir /tmp/demo;
    git_address git@github.com:baijian/iPublish.git
    dest_dir /home/www/projects/demo;
    server {
        host joinjoy.me;
        user bj;
    }
    server {
        host joinjoy2.me;
        user bj;
    }
}

project {
    name demo2;
    version_file /home/www/RELEASE/demo2;
    #source_dir /tmp/demo2;
    git_address git@github.com:baijian/iPublish.git
    dest_dir /home/www/projects/demo2;
    server {
        host joinjoy.me;
        user bj;
    }
}

Show help info

iPublish [-h | --help]

• Hash of hash

$conf{"project_name"}{"name"} = "demo";
$conf{"project_name"}{"version_file"} = "/home/www/RELEASE/DEMO";
$conf{"project_name"}{"source_dir"} = "";
$conf{"project_name"}{"git_address"} = "git@github.com:baijian/iPublish.git";
$conf{"project_name"}{"dest_dir"} = "";

• Hash of array of hash

$servers{"project_name"}[$i]{"host"} = "joinjoy.me";
$servers{"project_name"}[$i]{"user"} = "bj";

* 1.Write config in .iPublish for your projects
* 2.To see help info of iPublish command ```iPublish -h```.
* 3.iPublish -p <name> -v <version> 
* 4.iPublish -p -l