Rails Deployment » Capistrano

Capistrano 2.1

Martin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:58:06 +0000

Yes, I’m still alive. What’s more, Capistrano 2.1 is out. Apparently there are some issue using it with Mongrel but the RubyRobot has kindly documented what needs changed.

Deploy Flex using Capistrano

Martin — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:58:10 +0000

Ernest Micklei at Self Halt tells you how to use Capistrano to deploy Adobe Flex applications

Deploying Locally

Martin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:49:09 +0000

Richard Crowley has some useful advice regarding how to develop and deploy on the same box with Capistrano.

Capistrano 2 Deployment to Site5

Martin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:44:49 +0000

Giovanni Intini has posted a Capistrano 2 recipe for deploying to Site5. There’s another in variation in the comments to his article.

Capistrano Bells

Martin — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:01:37 +0000

Pat Nakajima over at DevThatWeb has put together a new plugin called Capistrano Bells. It is a set of Capistrano recipes which does many of the things that the deprec gem does (Pat created a new plugin since deprec doesn’t yet work with Capistrano 2.0).

Capistrano 2.0

Martin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:57:46 +0000

Graeme Mathieson over at Notes from a Messy Desk has written up a good summary of Jamis Buck’s tutorial on Harnessing Capistrano. It’s late so I can’t digest it all just now but it looks like it is worth a read (and don’t forget to read the comments to his article for a few extra tips from the folks at 37Signals )

Capistrano Collation of Release Notes

Martin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:48:12 +0000

Dan Glegg over at Angry Amoeba has created a plugin called ReleaseNotifier. This collects the relevant commit messages for the code you are currently deploying and e-mails a summary to whoever you think might be interested. It sounds like a good way to document what changes actually went into the deployed application.

Capistrano Server Extensions

Martin — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:55:07 +0000

Saimon Moore – the author of Capistrano Server Extensions – has written a good overview of their usage. Take a read and – while you are at it – check out the list of commands it supports.

Deploying Mint with Capistrano

Martin — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:52:57 +0000

For those of you interested in trying out Mint, the slick PHP-based analytics package, here are a few pointers to using Capistrano to deploy it.

Geoffrey Grosenbach suggests how to Deploy Mint with Capistrano
Pat Nakajima has turned it into a Capistrano 2 recipe

On a related minty note, you might also be interested in the Mint Ruby on Rails Plugin and Configuring Mint for nginx and Ruby on Rails.

Palmtree Capistrano Recipes

Martin — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:30:24 +0000

I see from the Capistrano group that there’s a new Capistrano recipes plugin on RubyForge. It is called Palmtree and looks like it will include recipes to help control ferret, memcached and backgroundrb amongst others. It requires Capistrano 2.0 (currently only available in preview release form)