capistrano-simple-shared-files

This gem provides Capistrano recipes to upload your linked files and directories. Linked files and directories are placed in the shared directory on your remote servers and kept between deployments. After a new deployment, a symlink is created from the shared directory to the current directory.

This is an adaptation from runar's capistrano-linked-files which is inspired in damselem's capistrano-shared-files. This gem applies the philosophy of the second one with the simpler, easier code of the first.

Add the gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-simple-shared-files'

Or install it to your system:

$ gem install capistrano-simple-shared-files

Add the gem to your Capfile:

require 'capistrano/simple_shared_files'

In deploy.rb, list the files and directories you'd like to keep between deployments:

set :shared_files, %w(config/database.yml config/secrets.yml)
set :shared_dirs, %w(bin tmp)

Then run the task:

$ bundle exec cap <stage> simple_shared_files:upload

To automatically upload linked files and directories before a new deployment, add the following to your deploy.rb:

before 'deploy:starting', 'simple_shared_files:upload'

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

The capistrano-linked-files plugin is free software released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.