Capistrano Deploy Recipe for Pure PHP Projects

Capfile.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'railsless-deploy'

load 'deploy' if respond_to?(:namespace) # cap2 differentiator

set :application, "PROJECT NAME"
set :repository,  "GITHUB REPO URL"

default_run_options[:pty] = true
set :normalize_asset_timestamps, false

role :web, "10.0.0.6" # Your HTTP server, Apache/etc
role :app, "10.0.0.6" # This may be the same as your `Web` server
role :db, "10.0.0.6", :primary => true # This is where Rails migrations will run
role :db, "10.0.0.6"

tags = `git tag`.split("\n").reverse
ind = 0

puts ""
puts "Repository Tags:"
puts "#"*30

tags.each do |t|
    puts "#{ind}) #{t}"
    ind = ind+1
end

puts "#"*30

set :branch do
  default_tag = `git tag`.split("\n").last

  tag = Capistrano::CLI.ui.ask "Tag to deploy (make sure to push the tag first): [#{default_tag}] "
  tag = default_tag if tag.empty?
  tag
end

set :user, 'app'
set :admin_runner, 'root'

set :scm, :git
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache

set :deploy_to, "/home/app/#{application}"
set :use_sudo, true

set :shared_children, %w()

namespace :deploy do 
  desc "Finalize Update"
  task :finalize_update do
    run "ln -nsf #{shared_path}/config/database.php #{current_release}/app/config"
    run "ln -nsf #{shared_path}/storage #{current_release}/public_html/storage"
  end

  namespace :web do
    task :disable do
      run "touch #{current_release}/public_html/maintenance.html"
    end
    task :enable do
      run "rm -rf #{current_release}/public_html/maintenance.html"
    end
  end

  task :start do ; end
  task :stop do ; end
  task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do
    run "#{try_sudo} /etc/init.d/nginx restart"
  end
end