deploy asp net mvc applications using psexec and git

I’ve been managing a couple of asp.net mvc applications, and I have a bunch of rake/albacore tasks to compile the asp.net mvc application on the remote server and update the database using fluent migrator.

Whenever I need to deploy I do the following:

  1. RDP into the remote server
  2. Open git bash => cd to the repository’s directory => do a git fetch and git merge origin/master
  3. And then run rake compile (to compile the latest changes) and finally rake db:migrate(to update the database if there are any db changes)

Even though rake and fluentmigrator make this pretty painless. It’s still a pain to rdp and do this stuff. So, I came up with a couple of batch scripts to make this process even simpler. Now I have two batch files in the root directory of my git repo:

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#deploy.bat
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.cmd" fetch && 
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.cmd" reset --hard HEAD && 
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.cmd" merge origin/master && 
rake compile && 
rake db:migrate

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#remote_deploy.bat
psexec \\example.com -u userfoo -w "c:\repos\foobar" "c:\repos\foobar\deploy.bat"

The code should be self explanatory. All we are doing is, instead of running the command manually automating them.

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