Speeding up Capistrano Deployments from 6 Minutes to 9 Seconds by Skipping Asset Compilation

gistfile1.rb

http://www.bencurtis.com/2011/12/skipping-asset-compilation-with-capistrano/

namespace :deploy do

namespace :assets do

task :precompile, :roles => :web, :except => { :no_release => true } do

from = source.next_revision(current_revision)

if capture("cd #{latest_release} && #{source.local.log(from)} vendor/assets/ app/assets/ | wc -l").to_i > 0

run %Q{cd #{latest_release} && #{rake} RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} #{asset_env} assets:precompile}

else

logger.info "Skipping asset pre-compilation because there were no asset changes"

end

end

end

end