Capistrano Upstart Service

Define Capistrano 3.x tasks for your Upstart services via a simple YAML configuration file.

This gem is the successor to capistrano-service.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano', '~> 3.0.0'
gem 'capistrano-upstart-service'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-upstart-service

require 'capistrano/upstart/service'

Then add a file named config/capistrano-upstart-service.yml in your project with the following content:

upstart_services:
  - name: nginx
    roles: :all

Once you've done this, you'll see that several tasks are defined for each service you added:

$ cap -T
...
cap nginx:reload                   # Reload the nginx service via upstart on all servers
cap nginx:restart                  # Restart the nginx service via upstart on all servers
cap nginx:start                    # Start the nginx service via upstart on all servers
cap nginx:status                   # Status the nginx service via upstart on all servers
cap nginx:stop                     # Stop the nginx service via upstart on all servers

You can add as many services to this YAML file as you like; tasks will be defined for all of them. If you omit the roles option, the service will default to :all.

Once you've set everything up, simply call your tasks directly (cap nginx:restart), or add them to your deploy flow:

namespace :deploy do
  after :publishing, 'nginx:restart', 'unicorn:restart'
end

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