Capistrano Recipes

Useful Capistrano recipes including:

• Create MySQL database and user on server (via prompts)
• Create standalone copy of database.yml in shared path (via prompts)
• Log rotation and tailing commands
• Restart and profile Phusion Passenger application server

Included Tasks

• cap db:create_yaml
• cap db:mysql:setup
• cap log:rotate
• cap log:tail
• cap passenger:bounce
• cap passenger:memory
• cap passenger:status
• cap symcreate_shared_dirs
• cap symshared_config_files
• cap symshared_directories

Installation

Easy as pie…

Ensure you have the Capistrano gem installed:

  sudo gem install capistrano

Optionally install the Capistrano extensions gem to give you multistage support:

  sudo gem install capistrano-ext

Install this gem:

  sudo gem install capistrano-recipes --source=http://gemcutter.com

To setup the initial Capistrano deploy file, go to your Rails app folder via command line and enter:

  capify .

Inside the newly created config/deploy.rb, add:

  require 'capistrano_recipes'
  require 'capistrano/ext/multistage' # only require if you've installed Cap ext gem

If you’re running Phusion Passenger (www.modrails.com) be sure you add this line to config/deploy.rb:

  set :server, :passenger

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 Webficient LLC, Phil Misiowiec. See LICENSE for details.