Capistrano strategy: Copy with triggers

This recipe for capistrano utilizes the regular copy strategy. However, it offers some hooks to prepare the build before compression and distribution.

Installation

gem install 'capistrano-strategy-copy-with-triggers'

Usage

As this recipe does it's own bundling, there is not need to: require 'bundler/capistrano'.

All you have to do in your config/deploy.rb:

require 'capistrano-strategy-copy-with-triggers'
set :deploy_via,    :copy_with_triggers

This gem also add a method to retrieve the path of release build directory:

set :build_dir      "#{strategy.destinationrelease}"

Additionally to that, you can set the usual options when using the regular :copy strategy for capistrano, like:

set :copy_cache,    ".cacheCopyDir"         # path where scm update is cached to speed up deploy
set :copy_dir,      ".buildDir"             # path where files are temporarily put before sending them to the servers
set :copy_exclude,  ".git*"                 # we exclude the .git repo so that nobody is able to temper with the release

#Callback triggers to add your own steps within (in order)

on 'strategy:before:compression', 'some:custom:task'
on 'strategy:after:compression',  'some:custom:task'
on 'strategy:before:distribute',  'some:custom:task'
on 'strategy:after:distribute',   'some:custom:task'

capistrano-strategy-copy-with-triggers

Runtime

Capistrano strategy: Copy with triggers

Installation

Usage