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".

patte

namespace :figaro do
  desc "SCP transfer figaro configuration to the shared folder"
  task :setup do
    on roles(:app) do
      upload! "config/application.yml", "#{shared_path}/application.yml", via: :scp
    end
  end

  desc "Symlink application.yml to the release path"
  task :symlink do