Oftenly local dev machine is much more powerfull than the remote one (VPS, for example). Every deploy system need to recompile all the assets in packs folder (by default). If the project is large, it'll take to much time and remote machine processor load that it would be much more easier to ...

Contains a unicorn namespace with methods for starting stopping and maintaining the unicorn server to serve the rails app.

Introduces a new deployment strategy where we pull the codebase as a tar.gz of an s3 bucket

Lightweight cap extensions to assist in server configuration management

example: Able to deploy by repo on Github Enterprise.

Capistrano recipes in use at novelys

Checks for dirty strings in a codebase based on a list of patterns. This may be used to prevent deployment if found.

A gem to allow you to deploy using a .tar.gz or .tar.xz

Get all instances in AutoScale group by AutoScale ec2 tag.

Change group of shared files/folders and add group writable bit

Notification hooks include start, finish and fail of deployments.

Skipping asset pre-compilation if there are no changes

Notify slack channel with list of deployed commits

Notification email for capistrano3

Sometimes you need to change the repo_url in Git. Run this to clean up after it.

Uses rsync to copy a local directory to your deployment servers

Introduces deployment lock using consul KVS.

TBG deploy gem

Deploy mysql databases

mirrors the public folder to amazon s3