With this command you can initiate an application restart without touching restart.txt. Unlike touching restart.txt, this tool initiates the restart immediately instead of on the next request. http://blog.phusion.nl/2014/01/02/phusion-passenger-4-0-33-released/

If you want to use this with capistrano 2.x just replace the touch command:

-    run "touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt"
+    run "passenger-config restart-app --ignore-app-not-running #{deploy_to}...

In medium-sized to large Rails applications, asset compilation can take several minutes. In order to speed up deployment, asset precompilation can be skipped. This card automates the process.

Capistrano 3

namespace :deploy do
  
  desc 'Automatically skip asset compile if possible'
  task :auto_skip_assets do
    asset_locations = %r(^(Gemfile\.lock|app/assets|lib/assets|vendor/asset))

    revisions = []
    on roles :app do
      within current_path do
        revisions << capture(:cat, 'REVISION').strip
      ...

These steps are now part of Spreewald.

The step definitions below allow you to test the filename suggested by the server:

When I follow "Export as ZIP"
Then I should get a download with the filename "contacts_20110203.zip"

Capybara

Then /^I should get a download with the filename "([^\"]*)"$/ do |filename|
  page.driver.response.headers['Content-Disposition'].should include("filename=\"#{filename}\"")
end

Webrat

Then /...