removing paths initializer

.gitignore

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ solr/pids
 config/database.yml
 vendor/bundle
 vendor/cache
-public/data
 coverage
 hiredis/
 log/

config/initializers/paths.rb

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# creates the paths needed
-
-%w[
-  public/data/zip
-
-].each do |path|
-  dirs = path.split('/')
-  dirs.size.times do |i|
-    new_path = Rails.root.to_s + '/' + dirs[0..i].join('/')
-    Dir.mkdir(new_path) unless File.directory?(new_path)
-  end
-end

lib/capistrano/tasks/base.rb

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ namespace :deploy do
     ln("#{shared_path}/config/key_mendeley.txt", "#{release_path}/key_mendeley.txt")
     ln("#{shared_path}/config/key_plos.txt", "#{release_path}/key_plos.txt")
     ln("#{shared_path}/data", "#{release_path}/public/data")
+    mkdir("#{shared_path}/data/zip")
     mkdir("#{shared_path}/assets")
     ln("#{shared_path}/assets", "#{release_path}/public/assets")
   end