Fix: esbuild assets are missing after capistrano deploy
Issue: You have an app using jsbundling-rails and esbuild. After deploy, the assets built by esbuild are missing in public/assets.
Solution: Add app/builds to your git repo (by adding a app/builds/.keep file).
Something in sprockets is caching paths and refuses to accept files in "unknown" locations.
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Fix for "Rails assets manifest file not found" in Capistrano deploy
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Cancelling the ActiveRecord callback chain
| What | Rails version | Within before_*
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Within after_*
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|---|---|---|---|
| Cancel later callbacks | Rails 1-4 | `re... |
During deployment: "You are trying to install in deployment mode after changing your Gemfile"
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*** [err :: some-host.makandra.de] You are trying to install in deployment mode after changing
*** [err :: some-host.makandra.de] ...
How to make sure that manual deploy tasks (scheduled in Pivotal Tracker) are executed on deploy (with Capistrano)
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Speed up Capistrano deployments using a remote cached copy of repository
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Simply add
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :copy_exclude, [ '.git' ]
to your config/deploy.rb and Capistr...
Fix Capistrano with RubyGems 1.6
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can't activate net-ssh (= 2.0.22) for [], already activated net-ssh-2.1.0 for [] (Gem::LoadError)
If you have B...
How to let passenger restart after deployment with capistrano
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passenger-config restart-app /path/to/app...
Configuring Webpacker deployments with Capistrano
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Using capistrano-rails
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Capistrano 2: Which Capistrano hooks to use for events to happen on both "cap deploy" and "cap deploy:migrations"
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Capistrano cowboy deploys
Sometimes, you just need to shoot from the hip…or deploy your local changes without committing them. Put this snippet from Jesse Newland in ~/.caprc and now you can cap cowboy deploy.