Capistrano: Delete old releases automatically
Whenever you deploy using Capistrano, a new folder is created within the releases directory on the remote server containing the application code.
By default Capistrano 3 keeps the last 5 releases in case you need to rollback to an older release. You can overwrite this setting by using
set :keep_releases, 3
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