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Trinidad hotdeploy extension
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# DESCRIPTION

Extension to allow Trinidad to redeploy an application each time a file, for instance tmp/restart.txt, is modified without restarting Tomcat.

[WARNING] This extension only works with Trinidad 0.9.0 or avobe.

# INSTALL

    $ jruby -S gem install trinidad_hotdeploy_extension

# CONFIGURE

To configure it, we need to add it into the extensions section of a web application in the Trinidad's configuration file.

http://wiki.github.com/calavera/trinidad/advanced-configuration

It also allows to configure the name of the file to monitorize and the period of time that it waits between each check.

    ---
      web_apps:
        default:
          extensions:
            hotdeploy:
              monitor: tmp/restart.txt # this parameter is optional, the default value is tmp/restart.txt
              delay: 30000 # in milliseconds, this parameter is optional, the default value is 1 second

This extension can also be loaded from the command line with its default parameters:

  $ jruby -S trinidad --load hotdeploy


Further information on how to write your own extension can be found in the wiki: http://wiki.github.com/calavera/trinidad/extensions

# DEVELOPMENT

Copy the hooks into git-hooks directory to .git/hooks to make sure the jar file is updated when the java code is modified.

# Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010-2011 David Calavera. See LICENSE for details.