How can I use FTP to update my website from a Subversion repository?

Question

I spent some time looking for an efficient way to update my website from a svn repository, but all I can find is to "svn update" directly from the web server, or use a pre/post-commit hook.

Since I don't have ssh access to my web server, I can't really use "svn update", so I tested a pre/post-commit hook (svn2web) which was practical, but not reliable enough. So I look over the internet and found Springloops, which is very satisfying because it has a FTP deploy feature that allows me to update my website directly from the svn repository.

Unfortunately, it isn't free, and I like to have full control of my repository. So my question is:

Is there any tool or script that allows me to update my website over FTP from my Subversion repository ?

Just like they do at Springloops (or Beanstalk).

Thank you very much for your help, I'm out of ideas...

Answer 1

Take a look at Capistrano. It's extremely powerful and can do a full checkout, zip it up, and push it to the server over ftp using the new "copy" deployment strategy:

set :deploy_via, :copy 

See http://www.capify.org/upgrade/whats-new for more info.