gistfile1.rb

namespace :app do
  desc <<-DESC
    Change application permissions.

    Because the user deploying the application is different to the user
    running the application we need to ensure that the permissions on
    directories are what we expect.
  DESC
  task :permissions do
    run "chown -R #{user}:www-data #{latest_release}"
    run "chmod -R g+r #{latest_release}"
    run "chown www-data:www-data #{latest_release}/log/*"
    run "chmod 660 #{latest_release}/log/*"
    run "chmod -R g+w #{latest_release}/tmp"
  end
end