Provides tasks for deploying a Rails application with FastCGI.

capistrano_fastcgi_deploy.rb

# 
# = Capistrano FastCGI deploy tasks
#
# Provides tasks for deploying a Rails application with FastCGI.
#
# Category::    Capistrano
# Package::     FastCGI
# Author::      Simone Carletti <[email protected]>
# Copyright::   2007-2008 The Authors
# License::     MIT License
# Link::        http://www.simonecarletti.com/
# Source::      http://gist.github.com/2769
# 
# 
# == Requirements
# 
# This extension requires the following variables to be defined:
# 
# [<tt>user</tt>] 
#   The unix user under which all commands are run on the server
# 
# 

unless Capistrano::Configuration.respond_to?(:instance)
  abort "This extension requires Capistrano 2"
end
 
Capistrano::Configuration.instance.load do
  
  namespace :fastcgi do
  
    desc <<-DESC
      Restarts your application. \
      Kills all `dispatch.fcgi` processes running under `user`,
      and causes fcgi processes to be restarted on the next request.
    DESC
    task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do
      run "pkill -9 -u #{user} -f dispatch.fcgi"
    end
    
    desc <<-DESC
      Start the application servers. \
      Please note that this task is not supported by FastCGI.
    DESC
    task :start, :roles => :app do
      logger.info ":start task not supported by FastCGI"
    end
    
    desc <<-DESC
      Stop the application servers. \
      Please note that this task is not supported by FastCGI.
    DESC
    task :stop, :roles => :app do
      logger.info ":stop task not supported by FastCGI"
    end

  end
  
  
  namespace :deploy do
  
    desc <<-DESC
      Restarts your application. \
      Overwrites default :restart task for FastCGI.
    DESC
    task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do
      fastcgi.restart
    end
    
    desc <<-DESC
      Start the application servers. \
      Overwrites default :start task for FastCGI.
    DESC
    task :start, :roles => :app do
      fastcgi.start
    end
    
    desc <<-DESC
      Stop the application servers. \
      Overwrites default :start task for FastCGI.
    DESC
    task :stop, :roles => :app do
      fastcgi.stop
    end
    
  end

end