jrochkind

A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".

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require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'

Bundler.require
require './application'

namespace :assets do
  desc 'compile assets'
  task :compile => [:compile_js, :compile_css] do
  end

shapeshed

upstream app {
	server unix:/srv/app/current/tmp/sockets/unicorn.sock fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
        listen   80;
        server_name  www.app.com;
        rewrite ^/(.*) http://app.com/$1 permanent;
}

server {