Articles tagged 'capistrano'

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Capistrano for your daemons

Nothing like some possitive feedback to keep you looking after your own projects, and the feedback on daemon-kit has been great so far. My TODO list is growing every day with more features that I need, and others need as well. I mostly add features...

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Google Analytics Plugin for Rails with local cache support

Strangely enough this started as a request from Tyler Bird after reviewing my Capistrano presentation. He was interested in learning how I use Capistrano to update external site dependencies, like a local cached copy of the Google Analytics JavaScript...

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Capistrano Presentation @ TUT

Yip, its yet another Capistrano presentation… Grab it here.

I had the fortunate pleasure of guest lecturing at the Tshwane University of Technology a couple of weeks ago on Capistrano. The class was a group of final year students that are just learning...

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Cleaning up capistrano deployments

The basic “cap deploy:cleanup” does its job well, but can leave traces behind.

I recently picked up that one of my servers in a Rails cluster had plenty more release directories than its peers, and they were very old. I was baffled, how does this...