Capistrano::Tarball

Note: this plugin works only with Capistrano 3.

About

Capistrano Tarball plugin allows the deployment of your apps via a tarball. This plugin does the following for you:

  • Packages your source code / compiled binary into a tarball.
  • Uploads the tarball to remote servers.
  • Extract the tarball to release_path

Installation

Put the following in your application's Gemfile:

group :development do
  gem 'capistrano', '~> 3.2.0'
  gem 'capistrano-tarball', require: false
end

Then:

$ bundle install

Usage

Put the following in your application's Capfile:

require 'capistrano/setup'
require 'capistrano/deploy'
require 'capistrano/tarball/load'

Then set the scm to tarball in your deploy.rb:

# Yeah, I know... tarball is not really a SCM, but trust me...
set :scm, :tarball

Configurations

Please see: defaults.rb

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/capistrano-binary/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request