Capistrano tasks to deploy Jekyll blog via :copy

deploy.rb

set :application, `your_app_name`
set :repository, '_site'
set :scm, :none
set :deploy_via, :copy
set :copy_compression, :gzip
set :use_sudo, false

set :user, `name_of_a_user_on_your_vps` # by default this could be "root" but it's good practice to create another user

set :deploy_to, `path_on_vps_to_deploy_to` # for example, "/home/#{user}/blog" - you can use other variables (defined using `set`) here, eg. user

role :web, `ip_address_of_your_vps`

before 'deploy:update', 'deploy:update_jekyll'

namespace :deploy do
  [:start, :stop, :restart, :finalize_update].each do |t|
    desc "#{t} task is a no-op with jekyll"
    task t, :roles => :app do ; end
  end
 
  desc 'Run jekyll to update site before uploading'
  task :update_jekyll do
    # clear existing _site
    # build site using jekyll
    # remove Capistrano stuff from build
    %x(rm -rf _site/* && jekyll build && rm _site/Capfile && rm -rf _site/config)
  end
end