Capistrano recipe to precompile assets locally and sync public/assets directory to web server.

gistfile1.rb

namespace :deploy do
  
  desc "Sync the public/assets directory."
  task :assets_sync do
    system('bundle exec rake assets:precompile')
    find_servers(:roles => :web).each do |s| 
      system "rsync -vr --exclude='.DS_Store' public/assets #{user}@#{s}:#{shared_path}/"
    end 
    system('rm -rf public/assets')
  end 
end