I've hit on a development methodology where when I want to modify one file on a server quickly, I make the changes to my local copy, then scp it to the remote machine. That saves me the overhead and security problems of having an (S)FTP server running on my production box. Which brings me to the question:
Is there some really easy way to build a command (or is there one already built) that will scp a file to a server relative to its location in a project? For example, if my DocumentRoot on the server is /var/www/myfinewebsite and I want to modify a file like includes/ stupid_php_why_isnt_this_rails.php on my local machine, I'd like it to scp to uname@mydomain.com:/var/www/myfinewebsite/includes.
Is this something someone else has done? Any thoughts about this practice?
Thanks,
Steve