Capistrano::SCM::Rsync

capistrano-scm-rsync allows you to use rsync to deploy your application to your servers.

Tested against Ruby 2.x
Ruby < 2.0 is not supported

Installation

Add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-scm-rsync'

$ bundle install

Use the plugin with capistrano by adding it to your Capfile:

require 'capistrano/scm/rsync'
install_plugin Capistrano::SCM::Rsync

Configuration

In your config/deploy.rb:

set :rsync_options,
    # The local directory to be copied to the server.
    source: 'app',
    # The cache directory on the server that receives files
    # from the source directory. Relative to shared_path or
    # an absolute path.
    # Saves you rsyncing your whole app folder each time. If
    # set to nil Capistrano::SCM::Rsync will sync directly to
    # the release_path.
    cache: 'cache',
    # Arguments passed to rsync when...
    args: {
      # ...copying the local directory to the server.
      local_to_remote: [],
      # ...copying the cache directory to the release_path.
      cache_to_release: %w(--archive --acls --xattrs)
    }

Example

See https://github.com/dnugleipzig/deploy.

Development

Source hosted at GitHub
Report issues/Questions/Feature requests on GitHub Issues

Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Please create a topic branch for every separate change you make.

Contributing

Fork it http://github.com/agross/capistrano-scm-rsync/fork
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request