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Dru
Dru

Reputation: 9820

Rails App in Dropbox

I would like to backup my rails app usig a private git repo. I've decided to use Dropbox but I've already deployed to heroku, setup DNS for a custom domain name without backing up and would hate for something to go wrong by transferring my project.

Does anyone have experience with this or knows if something will go wrong? Should I reconfigure any files before transferring to a private dropbox folder?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 635

Answers (3)

andruso
andruso

Reputation: 1985

In short - don't reconfigure or setup anything - have fun of some coding instead :) If you just want your repo to stay safely in the "cloud" then:

  1. Bundle (for git or mercurial)
  2. Gmail the bundle to yourself as a reply to the same "pull" message". Or, in case you have a fellow coder, then gmail to him/her. Double-backup.
  3. Done and forgotten. There is plenty of room in you gmail inbox and sent-items for the source-code of several projects.

IMHO it is:

  • fast
  • platform-neutral
  • shareable via smart-phone within 5 minutes maximum
  • pull/push/work anywhere
  • secure
  • easy
  • a natural habit

Upvotes: 0

Adam Dymitruk
Adam Dymitruk

Reputation: 129654

bitbucket now has private git repos. Unfuddle had them for a while too. These are all free, BTW.

Upvotes: 1

rocketscientist
rocketscientist

Reputation: 2488

Heroku's addons (i.e. custom domain) configurations are located on their server, not on your computer. Typically configs appear in ENV variables. Type heroku config to see what you have.

So yes, you are free to copy your code anywhere you like, and be sure to copy your dotfiles as well.

Personally, I use github for my code backups.

Upvotes: 3

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