grunt-rsync
A Grunt multitask for accessing the file copying and syncing capabilities of the rsync command line utility.
Release notes
3.0.0
Updated torsyncwrapper 3.0.0
.2.0.0
Updated torsyncwrapper 2.0.0
. Updated dev dependencies. Tested on Grunt1.0.1
.1.0.0
Updated torsyncwrapper 1.0.0
. Tested on Node5.3.0
.grunt
is no longer a peer dependency.0.6.2
Updated torsyncwrapper 0.4.1
.0.6.0
Updated torsyncwrapper 0.4.0
.0.5.0
Updated torsyncwrapper 0.3.0
.0.4.0
Updated torsyncwrapper 0.2.0
.0.3.0
Updated torsyncwrapper 0.1.0
. Some changes under the hood there, so a minor version bump seems appropriate.src
values that include wildcards should now be properly expanded by the shell.0.2.0
Updated task to properly use the config options object0.1.0
Grunt0.4
compatibility0.0.5
Initial releases, Grunt0.3
compatible
Prerequisites
A reasonably modern version of rsync (>=v2.6.9
) in your PATH
.
Installation
$ npm install grunt-rsync
Usage
Add a rsync
object to your Grunt config and grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-rsync")
.
Note:
grunt-rsync
uses the normalised target/task-level options for multitasks as described here.)
Options
This task uses rsyncwrapper under the hood.
All options are passed verbatim to rsyncwrapper and are documented in that project's README here.
Example
The following task config defines three targets.
The dist
target could be used to create a distribution of a website ready for deployment, excluding files related to Git and uncompiled SCSS.
The stage
and prod
targets could be used to copy the distribution to the relevant remote hosts over ssh.
rsync: {
options: {
args: ["--verbose"],
exclude: [".git*","*.scss","node_modules"],
recursive: true
},
dist: {
options: {
src: "./",
dest: "../dist"
}
},
stage: {
options: {
src: "../dist/",
dest: "/var/www/site",
host: "user@staging-host",
delete: true // Careful this option could cause data loss, read the docs!
}
},
prod: {
options: {
src: "../dist/",
dest: "/var/www/site",
host: "user@live-host",
delete: true // Careful this option could cause data loss, read the docs!
}
}
}
Wildcards, exclude patterns, globbing etc.
Any wildcards expansions and/or exclude patterns and globbing of paths are handled either by the shell or rsync itself. So importantly this task does not use Grunt's in-built path expanding and globbing.
For more information on rsync's syntax check the rsync manpages.
For information about how this task's options relate to rsync's functionality check rsyncwrapper.
Testing
Basic tests are run on Vows Async BDD via this package's Gruntfile. To test grunt-rsync
clone the repo and install the devDependancies:
$ npm install --dev
$ npm test