Deploying Rails apps using Capistrano

Capistrano Logo Deploying your application to the web is not a one-time thing. There will be changes to the application code, new assets to include, database updates, and so on. Applying these changes to your web server includes a list of commands that we need to do every time we need to deploy.

Capistrano solves this problem by automating the deploy process so you can execute all of the steps in a single command. Automation prevents user errors while deploying like forgetting the precompile task when assets have changed, missing database migrations, and remembering the sequence of commands. Automation also enables your infrastructure to scale so that your code is automatically deployed to all application servers without logging in to each one to manually deploy your code. Continue Reading