chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

Chef::Resource::Deploy#create_dirs_before_symlink

An array of paths, relative to your app's root, where you expect dirs to
exist before symlinking. This runs after #purge_before_symlink, so you
can use this to recreate dirs that you had previously purged.
For example, if you plan to use a shared directory for pids, and you
want it to be located in $APP_ROOT/tmp/pids, you could purge tmp,
then specify tmp here so that the tmp directory will exist when you
symlink the pids directory in to the current release.
Default: ["tmp", "public", "config"]

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Edit

git clone [email protected]:opscode/chef.git

cd chef

open lib/chef/resource/deploy.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Resource--Deploy-create_dirs_before_symlink-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chef/resource/deploy.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chef::Resource::Deploy#create_dirs_before_symlink"

# Open pull request

gem install hub # on a mac you can `brew install hub`

hub fork

git push <your name> -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Resource--Deploy-create_dirs_before_symlink-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!