This gem intends to ease the deployment of Rails apps with capistrano to passenger5 and nginx setup.

Warning: It is only tested with Capistrano 3 and some parts of the gem might be specific to our own usage (live rbenv). You are welcome to change it or send pull requests.

• Deploy Rails apps to passenger 5 and Nginx combination on Server.
• Ability to generate and upload a default Nginx configuration file for the application

Add this to Gemfile:

group :development do
  gem "capistrano", "~> 3.3"
  gem 'capistrano-rbenv', '~> 2.0'
  gem 'capistrano-passenger5-nginx' , :git => 'https://github.com/standout/capistrano-passenger5-nginx.git'
end

And then:

$ bundle

Add this to your Capfile

require 'capistrano/passenger5_nginx'

rails g capistrano:passenger5_nginx:config

Above command will generate the default nginx config file in your project which will be at living at /config/deploy/templates/nginx_conf.erb

Warning: Below line is commented out in nginx_conf.rb file, if your ruby version is different than the version passenger5 uses, then uncomment this line and change the path with the one one your application should use.

# passenger_ruby /your/ruby/version/path/2.2.0/bin/ruby;

Nginx will be logging everything to /opt/nginx/log/ directory

There are some flags that should be added to your production/staging.rb

These are:

• rails_env
• nginx_server_name
• nginx_use_ssl (true|false)
• passenger_min_instances (if you want to have more than one instances running your app, default 1)

Here is an example for production.rb

set :nginx_server_name, 'app.example.com'
set :nginx_use_ssl, true
set :rails_env, 'production'
set :passenger_min_instances, 2

Run the command below for uploading the nginx configuration and reloading the nginx for the first time deploy. This config file is not uploaded after each deploy so should be done manually.

bundle exec cap production nginx:setup bundle exec cap production nginx:reload

@kalys - for his capistrano-nginx-unicorn plugin.

@bruno- - for his capistrano-unicorn-nginx plugin.