Using Capistrano with Perl (or PHP) 4 comments

posted Thursday, March 9, 2006 by topfunky

UPDATE: The cap command can be used instead of rake.

Theoretically, you can use the ~~Switchtower~~ Capistrano deployment system with Perl, PHP, or any other system. I haven’t seen a tutorial for doing it with non-Rails systems, so here is how I did it tonight:

Make the standard ‘public’, and ‘config’ folders that you are used to seeing in Rails.
Copy all your Perl or PHP files into ‘public’.
Copy this starter deploy.rb file to config/deploy.rb.
Make a restart task that does nothing (or restarts FCGI’s for the language in question).
Run cap setup
Copy any relevant upload folders to shared/system/...
Make an after_symlink task that symlinks from any relevant upload folders and makes Perl files executable:

desc 'Link to files'
task :after_symlink do
  run "chmod +x #{current_path}/public/*.pl" 
  run "ln -s #{shared_path}/file #{current_path}/public/file" 
end