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.
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After updating your RubyGems, you will probably not be able to run Capistrano any more, but receive an error similar to this:
can't activate net-ssh (= 2.0.22) for [], already activated net-ssh-2.1.0 for [] (Gem::LoadError)
If you have B...
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Speed up Capistrano deployments using a remote cached copy of repository
You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying to.
Simply add
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :copy_exclude, [ '.git' ]
to your config/deploy.rb and Capistr...
Capistrano + Rails: Tagging production deploys
Just like Ruby Gems tag their version releases to the corresponding Git commit, it can be helpful to track production deploys within the commit history. This task does the tagging for you.
Capistrano 3
# lib/capistrano/tasks/deploy.rb
na...
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