We generally use multiple application servers (at least two) and you have to search on all of them if you...
On application servers, gems are usually bundled into the project directory, at a location shared across deployments. This is usually...
Reminder of what you can do with Geordi. Note: If you alias Geordi to something short like g, running commands...
Sometimes huge refactorings or refactoring of core concepts of your application are necessary for being able to meet new requirements...
TL;DR: Update the 'net-ssh' gem by adding to your Gemfile: gem 'net-ssh', '=2.9.1' Now run bundle update...
Improve geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any...
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
Remove some old binaries (commands still exist in geordi) and mark others as deprecated Rewrite deploy command to support...
The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...
I recommend to go straight to 2.1.5+ without intermediate steps. Otherwhise you burden yourself with unnecessary work of encoding problems...
If you'd like to preview the crontab that whenever will deploy, run the following: bundle exec whenever
In Capistrano 2, directories in shared_children used to be symlinked to the shared directory during the finalize_update task...
Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward. A reverse proxy is a "man in the middle...
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
With this command you can initiate an application restart without touching restart.txt. Unlike touching restart.txt, this tool initiates the restart...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
Capistrano 2 brings the shell command which allows you to run commands on your deployment targets. There is also invoke...