Sometimes you just don’t have the time to do things properly. For a side project I’m hacking on, my deployment process is this:

1. ssh into the server
2. git pull
3. rebar compile

And that’s it (Mochiweb’s reloader reloads the code on the fly).

Erlang is running under screen so I can always poke around in the shell and do some good old printf debugging when I need to.

It works well and will serve me fine until I know I need to make it more robust.