A Tempest of Thoughts

# Necessary to run on Site5
set :use_sudo, false
set :group_writable, false
 
# Less releases, less space wasted
set :keep_releases, 2
 
# The mandatory stuff
set :application, "YOUR_APP_NAME"
set :user, "SSH_USERNAME"
 
set :repository,  "URL_FOR_YOUR_REPOSITORY"
 
# SCM information
set :scm_username, "SCM_USERNAME"
set :scm_password, Proc.new { CLI.password_prompt "SVN Password: "}
 
# This is related to site5 too.
set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/apps/#{application}"
 
role :app, "SERVERNAME"
role :web, "SERVERNAME"
role :db,  "SERVERNAME", :primary => true
 
 
# In the deploy namespace we override some default tasks and we define
# the site5 namespace.
namespace :deploy do
  desc <<-DESC
    Deploys and starts a `cold' application. This is useful if you have not \
    deployed your application before, or if your application is (for some \
    other reason) not currently running. It will deploy the code, run any \
    pending migrations, and then instead of invoking `deploy:restart', it will \
    invoke `deploy:start' to fire up the application servers.
  DESC
  # NOTE: we kill public_html so be sure to have a backup or be ok with this application
  # being the default app for the domain.
  task :cold do
    update
    site5::link_public_html
    site5::kill_dispatch_fcgi
  end
 
  desc <<-DESC
    Site5 version of restart task.
  DESC
  task :restart do
    site5::kill_dispatch_fcgi
  end
 
  namespace :site5 do
    desc <<-DESC
      Links public_html to current_release/public
    DESC
    task :link_public_html do
      run "cd /home/#{user}; rm -rf public_html; ln -s #{current_path}/public ./public_html"
    end
 
    desc <<-DESC
      Kills Ruby instances on Site5
    DESC
    task :kill_dispatch_fcgi do
      run "skill -u #{user} -c ruby"
    end
  end
end