Phusion Passenger changed the way how it gets restarted several times. Through the project's history, these all were valid...
Just like Ruby Gems tag their version releases to the corresponding Git commit, it can be helpful to track production...
In medium-sized to large Rails applications, asset compilation can take several minutes. In order to speed up deployment, asset...
When your application is running on a multi-server setup, application logs are stored per server (unless you choose a...
By default, Capistrano truncates server responses and places an ellipsis at the end of lines that are longer than your...
For applications coming with lots of stylesheets and scripts, asset compilation might take quite long. This can be annoying when...
Capistrano has the concept of a "rollback" that comes in really handy in case of errors. When you notice that...
When you have a multi-server setup, you'll be adding a new server from time to time. Before doing...
Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.
Sometimes, through some firewall or proxy misconfiguration, you might have to deploy to a server that cannot access the git...
We generally use multiple application servers (at least two) and you have to search on all of them if you...
Reminder of what you can do with Geordi. Note: If you alias Geordi to something short like g, running commands...
TL;DR: Update the 'net-ssh' gem by adding to your Gemfile: gem 'net-ssh', '=2.9.1' Now run bundle update...
Capistrano is by default configured to exclude the gems of the groups development and test when deploying to the stages...
When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list...
Tool to show you which gems are slow to load: ➜ git:(master) ✗ bundle exec bumbler [################################################# ] (49/65) travis-lint...
To install gems Bundler needs to be able to talk to https://api.rubygems.org. If you are behind a proxy you...
Geordi is now (partially) tested with Cucumber. Yay! geordi cucumber supports a new @solo tag. Scenarios tagged with @solo...
Note The maintenance mode is enabled on all application server as soon as the file /public/system/maintenance.html is present. Installation
I recommend to go straight to 2.1.5+ without intermediate steps. Otherwhise you burden yourself with unnecessary work of encoding problems...
In Capistrano 2, directories in shared_children used to be symlinked to the shared directory during the finalize_update task...
Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...
You can hook into Slack when using Capistrano for deployment. The slackistrano gem does most of the heavy lifting for...
Geordi 1.0 features a command line application geordi, that holds most of Geordi's previous commands. New features