What is a good way to deploy Catalyst applications to a production server? Currently I simply have a FastCGI dispatch script in the root of the repository and when I want to upd
A combination of a proxy load-balancer and two flip-flop fastcgi applications running alternatively as production and staging applications would be your best bet. What web server are you using? If it happens to be Lighttpd, then have a look at these links:
Deploying Catalyst applications with lighttpd and FastCGI
High Availability using Catalyst & FastCGI external server
To deal with the unsatisfied dependencies issue, I use a script that runs svn export
for the entire app-tree to a separate directory, sets the environment appropriately and then executes:
perl -MMyApp -e '{print "OK"}'
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "MyApp failed compile, not installing."
exit 1
fi
That's quite sufficient to ensure any modules installed in dev are available before recycling Apache and/or FastCGI. Once it succeeds the exported code is moved to its final location.