Deployment with Capistrano Course (How To)

Deploying a web app to a production server involves steps that you're going to need to repeat every time you release a new version, such as pulling the changes from Git and restarting your web server. Doing it manually may not seem too bad at first, but over time the potential for mistakes adds up. So in this course, we're going to show you how to automate deploys to make them fast, easy, and safe. We'll be using the Ruby community's most popular deployment framework, Capistrano.

What you'll learn

• Rails production deployment
• Capistrano
• SSH

Try Out Capistrano

Learn what Capistrano can do for you, and take a tour of its basic features.

Chevron 3 steps

• What is Capistrano?

  1:31

• Trying Capistrano

  9:11

• Basic Capistrano Configuration

  6 questions

Deploy a Rails App with Capistrano

Use Capistrano to deploy a Rails app. Set up tasks to automate database creation and server restart.

Chevron 7 steps

• Deploying a Rails App

  8:12

• Deploying a Code Challenge

  3 objectives

• Adding a Capistrano Task

  11:39

• Capistrano Tasks

  5 questions

• Starting the Server

  11:42

• Restarting Unicorn

  13:05

• Capistrano Summary

  0:50