capistrano

Overview

Setup a basic deployment target for the Rails deploy tool capistrano.

Ensures the specific directory structure capistrano expects and sets the right permissions and ownership for everything.

For a more comperhensive Rails deployment recipe which makes use of this module, see deversus-rails.

Requests & patches welcome.

Usage

include capistrano

capistrano::deploytarget {'myapp':
    deploy_user    => 'capistrano',
    share_group    => 'puma',
    deploy_dir     => '/var/www/myapp/',                   # default
    shared_dirs    => ['log', 'pids', 'system', 'assets'], # default
}

This would create:

• /var/www/myapp/release owned by capistrano
• /var/www/myapp/shared owned by capistrano and the group puma (your web server will usually need access to this directory), and subdirectories:
  • /var/www/myapp/shared/log
  • /var/www/myapp/shared/pids
  • /var/www/myapp/shared/system
  • /var/www/myapp/shared/assets

Capistrano should run happily the first time using this structure.