Some handy tasks and config defaults

Capistrano/Capfile

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'railsless-deploy'
 load 'config/lib/misc'
+load 'config/lib/tasks'
 load 'config/deploy'

Capistrano/config/SAMPLE.config.rb

@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@
 set :scm, :git
 # Or: `accurev`, `bzr`, `cvs`, `darcs`, `git`, `mercurial`, `perforce`, `subversion` or `none`
 
+# Using Git Submodules?
+set :git_enable_submodules, 1
+if git_enable_submodules then before "deploy", "git:submodule_tags"
+
 role :web, "your web-server here"

Capistrano/config/deploy.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
-# Pull in the config file
-loadFile 'config/config.rb'
+#
+set :user, "deploy"
+set :use_sudo, false
+set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
+set :copy_exclude, [".git", ".gitmodules", ".DS_Store", ".gitignore"]
+set :keep_releases, 5
 
 after "deploy:restart", "deploy:cleanup"
+after "deploy:update_code", "shared:make_shared_dir"
+after "deploy:update_code", "shared:make_symlinks"
+
+# Pull in the config file
+loadFile 'config/config.rb'

Capistrano/config/lib/tasks.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+namespace :shared do
+	task :make_shared_dir do
+		run "if [ ! -d #{shared_path}/files ]; then mkdir #{shared_path}/files; fi"
+	end
+	task :make_symlinks do
+		run "if [ ! -h #{release_path}/shared ]; then ln -s #{shared_path}/files/ #{release_path}/shared; fi"
+		run "for p in `find -L #{release_path} -type l`; do t=`readlink $p | grep -o 'shared/.*$'`; sudo mkdir -p #{release_path}/$t; sudo chown www-data:www-data #{release_path}/$t; done"
+	end
+end
+
+namespace :nginx do
+	desc "Restarts nginx"
+	task :restart do
+		run "sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart"
+	end
+end
+
+namespace :phpfpm do
+  desc" Restarts PHP-FPM"
+  task :restart do
+    run "sudo /etc/init.d/php-fpm restart"
+  end
+end
+
+namespace :git do
+	desc "Updates git submodule tags"
+	task :submodule_tags do
+		run "if [ -d #{shared_path}/cached-copy/ ]; then cd #{shared_path}/cached-copy/ && git submodule foreach --recursive git fetch origin --tags; fi"
+	end
+end