Deploying play2 application with capistrano

deploy.rb

set :deploy_to, "/usr/share/my-app"

namespace :play do
   task :setup do
      run "mkdir -p #{deploy_to}"
      upload "my-app/start.sh", "#{deploy_to}/start.sh", :mode => '755', :via => :scp
      upload "my-app/stop.sh", "#{deploy_to}/stop.sh", :mode => '755', :via => :scp
   end

   task :deploy do
     package
     stop
     copy_app_files
     start_prod
   end

   task :stop do
     targets = find_servers_for_task(current_task)
     failed_targets = targets.map do |target|
       cmd = "ssh #{user}@#{target.host} 'cd #{deploy_to} && ./stop.sh'"
       target.host unless system cmd
     end.compact
     raise "Stopping my-app failed on #{failed_targets.join(',')}" if failed_targets.any?
   end

   task :start do
     targets = find_servers_for_task(current_task)
     failed_targets = targets.map do |target|
       cmd = "ssh #{user}@#{target.host} 'cd #{deploy_to} && ./start.sh -Dconfig.resource=prod.conf'"
       target.host unless system cmd
     end.compact
     raise "Starting my-app failed on #{failed_targets.join(',')}" if failed_targets.any?
   end

   task :package do
     system "cd my-app && play clean compile stage"
   end

   task :copy_app_files do
     upload "my-app/target", deploy_to, :via => :scp, :recursive => true
   end
end

my-app.sh

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          play framework
# Required-Start:    $syslog $time $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $syslog $time $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Play application
# Description:       Play application
### END INIT INFO

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

USER="jeroenr"
MY_APP_DIR="/usr/share/my-app"
PIDFILE="$MY_APP_DIR/RUNNING_PID"

case $1 in
    start)
        su - $USER -c "cd $MY_APP_DIR && exec ./start.sh -Dconfig.resource=prod.conf"
        exit 0
        ;;
    stop)
        su - $USER -c "cd $MY_APP_DIR && exec ./stop.sh"
        exit 0
        ;;
    restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
    status)
        PID=$(cat $PIDFILE 2> /dev/null)
        if [ "$PID" != "" ] && [ -d /proc/$PID ]; then echo "My-app is running"; exit 0; fi
        echo "My-app is NOT running!"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

start.sh

#!/bin/bash

nohup bash -c "cd /home/elmar/my-app && target/start $* &>> /var/log/my-app.log 2>&1" &> /dev/null &

stop.sh

#!/bin/bash

pid=`cat RUNNING_PID 2> /dev/null`
if [ "$pid" == "" ]; then echo "trip-api is not running"; exit 0; fi
echo "Stopping trip-api..."
kill -SIGTERM $pid

Maybe I'll transform it into a capistrano plugin one day