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Vagrant

gem install vagrant

vagrant up

vagrant halt

  • Ruby DSL for provisioning VirtualBox VMs
  • creates a user named vagrant, with password 'vagrant'

Organizing cap files

  • break tasks into files in a subdir, like /deploy/recipes
  • if general, store them in a git-submodule
  • OR extract them into a gem

RVM

  • require 'rvm/capistrano'
  • set :ruby_string => 'ruby-1.9.2-p180'

Speed up Capistrano by combining symlink tasks

  • by default, each symlink task uses a separate ssh connection

Bundler & capistrano together

Use generic 'deploy' user for capistrano

define an on_rollback block for your task

  • what should happen if a task fails?

Capistrano notifcations

  • cap_gun gem

Coming soon pages

  • cap coming_soon:enable
  • cap coming_soon:disable
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