My deploy.rb file for my Rails application hosted at RailsPlayground.com

Note: "defaultrails" is the directory of files that you get when you type in "rails defaultrails". I use this default rails installation to point to the system-specific or rails-version-specific files that need to come from the webserver's installation of rails.

Note 2: I am assuming you have removed from SVN /config/boot.rb, config/environment.rb, /config/database.yml, /config/environments/development.rb, /script/*. Once these files are removed, you can make symbolic links in those locations.

BASIC INFO

Your Site name: yoursite.com

SSH login name: mr_yoursite

The site that you used to sign up for railsplayground.com: MainRegisteredDomain.com

Name of Capistrano root directory: yoursite_production

Name of SVN repository: yoursite_repository

Name of the application directory: yoursite_production <--- this is the Capistrano root directory where, in a subdirectory called "current", Capistrano is going to deploy your code.

----- BEGIN /config/deploy.rb -----

set :user, 'mr_yoursite'

set :password, 'SECRET'

set :server, 'yoursite.com'

set :svnserver, 'MainRegisteredDomain.svnrepository.com'

set :application, 'yoursite'

set :applicationdir, 'yoursite_production'

set :repository, "http://#{svnserver}/svn/yoursite_repository/trunk"

role :web, server

role :app, server

role :db,  server, :primary => true

set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/#{applicationdir}"

set :absolute_shared_directory, "#{deploy_to}/shared"

set :default_rails, "#{deploy_to}/shared/default_rails"

set :current_deployment, "#{deploy_to}/current"

task :restart, :roles => :app do

end

task :after_symlink do


run "ln -s #{default_rails}/config/boot.rb #{current_deployment}/config/boot.rb"

run "ln -s #{default_rails}/config/environment.rb #{current_deployment}/config/environment.rb"

run "ln -s #{absolute_shared_directory}/config/database.yml #{current_deployment}/config/database.yml"

run "ln -s #{default_rails}/config/environments/development.rb #{current_deployment}/config/environments/development.rb"

run "ln -s #{default_rails}/script #{current_deployment}/script"

run "cp -f #{default_rails}/public/dispatch.cgi #{current_deployment}/public/dispatch.cgi"

run "chmod 755 -R #{current_deployment}/public"

end