Sample app to deploy Rails to a VPS using Capistrano recipes

Check out Railscasts episode #337 for more info.

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Uncomment gems

gem unicorn
gem capistrano

Create capfile

$ capify .

Copy recipes you need from this sample app in config/recipes (nginx, postgresql, unicorn, rbenv, etc...)

Copy Capfile from this app

Change name of the app and ip address where needed (deploy.rb)

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• Recommended setup: Ubuntu 12.04 x64 Server

SSH to server

$ ssh [email protected]

Create new user named deployer with admin privileges

$ adduser deployer --ingroup sudo

Give new user admin privileges

$ visudo

#User privileges
root      ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
deployer  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Cap Install

$ cap deploy:install

Cap Setup

$ cap deploy:setup

Cap Deploy

$ cap deploy:cold

Future changes can be pushed with cap deploy

$ cap deploy

Run Rails Console on server

$ cap rails:console

Tail logs

$ cap tail