Github, Playground Servers & Auto Pull From Master - Theme.fm

Github, Playground Servers & Auto Pull From Master - Theme.fm

There are many different approaches on how you handle middle-scale to large-scale web applications development, source control, deployment and testing. Internally things may change, you can work in waterfall, scrum, agile and other methodologies, but externally it’s pretty much the same — local development server or servers, a testing (I like to call it playground) server and your production server, where your website is live and available to the whole world.

Today’s post is about handling automatic code updates at your testing server directly from your source control. Now this may sound tempting but you should never do anything like this on your production servers. Production server updates might be covered in one of our next blog posts but that’s one place where you’re better off doing some deployments manually rather than automate them.