Whats Your Development Env. ?

[Colin Clark]

Blake,

I haven't done a ton of server-side development in a while, but in the  
past I've preferred to have a reasonable development environment set  
up locally on my laptop that mirrors my deployment environment  
closely. So in your case, a working Apache/PHP/MySQL stack configured  
similarly to your server.

At that point, you should be able to develop directly in a working  
copy of your code checked out from SVN, testing in a realistic  
environment throughout. At various stages in your dev workflow-- 
perhaps after getting a new feature committed to SVN--you may also  
want to sync up your server and test there as well.

Colin

On 20-Jan-09, at 4:14 PM, electBlake wrote:

> Calling All Code Junkies!
>
> Blake here, from the VULab project and I'm having problems figuring  
> out a good way to setup my development workflow.
>
> My Preference.
> I enjoy working on a live development server so I can fully see how  
> my php code is going to behave on a standard LAMP situation, as such  
> I also enjoy using an integrated ftp code writing client.
>
> The Problem.
> York University, where VULab is hosted is like many other private  
> and secure server clusters that don't allow the ftp protocol to be  
> used to access their servers. The sftp option falls short as with my  
> current permissions I need to sudo <cmd> to have write access.
>
> The Current Situation.
> Currently I am biting the bullet and I am developing the site  
> locally, and then submitting my patches to svn and after the patches  
> have been committed I ssh into the server (vulab.yorku.ca) and  
> checkout the latest from the svn. This works but like I stated in My  
> Preference, I enjoy seeing my code on the final server setup asap.
>
> The Solution(s)?
> I am curious as to how you other fluid'ers are developing and what  
> your workflow is. Be as details or straight forward as possible. I  
> am new to working within a svn workflow so I feel like I am missing  
> something.
>

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org