Using Capistrano to Deploy Rails App
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After using Docker to deploy last month, I’ve decided to try deploying using Capistrano and nginx for my current project.
Helpful links: http://robmclarty.com/blog/how-to-deploy-a-rails-4-app-with-git-and-capistrano
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myapp.conf
server {
listen 80;
server_name mydomain.com;
# Tell Nginx and Passenger where your app's 'public' directory is
root /var/www/myapp/current/public;
# Turn on Passenger
passenger_enabled on;
passenger_ruby /home/bchoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3/wrappers/ruby;
}
Required the following in my Capfile:
require 'capistrano/passenger # Restarts Passenger'
require 'capistrano/rails/assets # Precompiles assets'
require 'capistrano/rvm # Uses RVM'
require 'capistrano/bundler # Runs bundle install'
deploy.rb precompile assets:
# set the locations that we will look for changed assets to determine whether to precompile
set :assets_dependencies, %w(app/assets lib/assets vendor/assets Gemfile.lock config/routes.rb)
# clear the previous precompile task
Rake::Task["deploy:assets:precompile"].clear_actions
class PrecompileRequired < StandardError; end
# set the locations that we will look for changed assets to determine whether to precompile
set :assets_dependencies, %w(app/assets lib/assets vendor/assets Gemfile.lock config/routes.rb)
# clear the previous precompile task
Rake::Task["deploy:assets:precompile"].clear_actions
class PrecompileRequired < StandardError; end
namespace :deploy do
namespace :assets do
desc "Precompile assets"
task :precompile do
on roles(fetch(:assets_roles)) do
within release_path do
with rails_env: fetch(:rails_env) do
begin
# find the most recent release
latest_release = capture(:ls, '-xr', releases_path).split[1]
# precompile if this is the first deploy
raise PrecompileRequired unless latest_release
latest_release_path = releases_path.join(latest_release)
# precompile if the previous deploy failed to finish precompiling
execute(:ls, latest_release_path.join('assets_manifest_backup')) rescue raise(PrecompileRequired)
fetch(:assets_dependencies).each do |dep|
# execute raises if there is a diff
execute(:diff, '-Naur', release_path.join(dep), latest_release_path.join(dep)) rescue raise(PrecompileRequired)
end
info("Skipping asset precompile, no asset diff found")
# copy over all of the assets from the last release
execute(:cp, '-r', latest_release_path.join('public', fetch(:assets_prefix)), release_path.join('public', fetch(:assets_prefix)))
rescue PrecompileRequired
execute(:rake, "assets:precompile")
end
end
end
end
end
end
end
Source: https://coderwall.com/p/aridag/only-precompile-assets-when-necessary-rails-4-capistrano-3