capistrano-tar-files

Capistrano v3.* extension to speed up deployments by creating and unpacking tarball archives for directories which don't change much between releases e.g vendor (Composer) and node_modules (npm/yarn)

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano', '~> 3.3.0'
gem 'capistrano-tar-files'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-tar-files

Require in Capfile to use the default task:

require 'capistrano/tar_files'

Tarballs are unpacked during deploy:updating and created during deploy:finishing as part of Capistrano's default deploy

Configurable options:

set :tar_files, []                       # default
set :tar_location, "tarballs"            # default
set :tar_unpack_flags, "xf"              # default
set :tar_create_flags, "cf"              # default

# Create and unpack tarballs for these directories between releases
set :tar_files, ['vendor', 'node_modules', 'web/assets']

This extension was inspired by capistrano-copy-files

Released under the MIT license