Scott Motte

Deploying with Git and Capistrano

Get your git all setup and your project gitified.

Freeze your gems and freeze to edge your project and git push that to the server (rake rails:freeze:gems and rake rails:freeze:edge or rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_2-0-2 see here ) (script/about to see what version your rails is already on. maybe you already froze earlier and forgot)

Capify your project (capify .)

Edit deploy.rb file created by capistrano use this instructions also use hostingrails? wiki for capistrano two Here?s an example of deploy.rb

Edit Capfile created by capistrano example code

Set ENV[?RAILS_ENV?] ||= ?production? in config/environment.rb

Edit .htaccess file to do fcgi instead of normal cgi instructions here

On local machine run cap -T to view commands available

Add an ssh-keygen to the server as well (since it will be taking from github) see here and here

Follow the latter end of these instructions from hostingrails