Running deploy within the guest VM on windows : Issue with building assets

[fullyint]

@fullyint

Using build-before.yml as a Windows user, you’ll probably want to run npm, bower, and gulp commands manually on your Windows machine (vs. having Trellis run these commands). Then you can have Trellis sync to your server the compiled assets (stuff gulp builds into your sage dist folder).

To achieve this sync, you’ll probably want to uncomment and use the single task below, making the one change for Trellis to know where to find the files on your vm.

 - name: Copy project local files
   synchronize:
-    src: "{{ project.local_path }}/web/app/themes/sage/dist"
+    src: "{{ project_root }}/current/web/app/themes/sage/dist"
     dest: "{{ deploy_helper.new_release_path }}/web/app/themes/sage"
     group: no
     owner: no
     rsync_opts: --chmod=Du=rwx,--chmod=Dg=rx,--chmod=Do=rx,--chmod=Fu=rw,--chmod=Fg=r,--chmod=Fo=r

I’m not on Windows, so I’m a little uncertain about this, but I think you’ll need to run your npm/bower/gulp commands from either the Windows side or from within the VM, but not both because the differing OS versions may conflict (for node_modules/ etc.).

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@mcnally486

I cannot use deploy.sh

Do you get any particular error? Is your Trellis version as recent as Jan 16, 2016?

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Keep an eye on ansible_local coming soon to Trellis, which should simplify some of your steps on Windows.