1. Deployments with Rails
-Gourav Tiwari

2. Overview
● Crash-course on Capistrano
● Quick tips
● Questions?

3. Basic Structure
● config directory
● deploy.rb
● Capfile

4. Variables
● application
● repository
● scm
● user
● deploy_to
● Custom variables?
● exists?

5. Roles
● app
● db
● web
● Options
– :primary => true
– :no_release => true

6. Cap Tasks
● Namespace
● Tasks
● before
● after
● Multiple tasks before/after
● assets?

7. Running commands
● run
● rake tasks
● shell scripts
● set cron jobs (whenever)
● create links and so on...

8. Multiple environments
● Specific vs Generic tasks
● Handling environment variables
● Different git branches

9. Useful cap tasks available
● cap -T
● cap -vT
● cap -e <taskname>
● cap <env> deploy:install
● cap <env> deploy:migrations
● cap <env> deploy:cleanup
● cap <env> deploy

10. Transactions and Roll-Back

11. Thank You

12. References
● https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki
● https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano