Automating EE Bootstrapping and Deployment

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1. AUTOMATING EE Bootstrapping and Deployment ExpressionEngine Seattle / November 15,

   2012

2. Matt Fordham Principal & Technical Director / @mattfordham www.wintr.com

3. “A good developer is a lazy developer.” – Some lazy

   developer

4. Automated Development CSS Frameworks Javascript Libraries CSS and JS Preprocessors

   Add-ons (plug-ins, extensions) Text editors (snippets, commands, etc)

5. Project Bootstrapping The process of quickly getting a new project

   started with minimal setup and repetition.

6. Bootstrapping EE: things to automate Creating a new database Installing

   ExpressionEngine Setting up file structure Creating CSS and JS skeleton Configuring EE (prefs, user groups, etc) Installing the usual add-ons Initializing and pushing to Git repo

7. The Template Repo A Git repo containing an already configured

   copy of ExpressionEngine, including a database dump. http://www.matthewfordham.com/blog/ee-template

8. Strap https://github.com/mattfordham/Strap

9. Project Deployment The process of copying project files to a

   server and configuring the files to run on the server.

10. Capistrano https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano

11. Some Useful Links https://github.com/mattfordham/Strap https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano https://github.com/leehambley/railsless-deploy http://www.matthewfordham.com/blog/ee-template http://www.matthewfordham.com/blog/deploying-expressionengine https://bitbucket.org/cwcrawley/eeci-talk-files

12. Thanks :) @mattfordham www.wintr.com www.matthewfordham.com/blog