capistrano-scm-tar

A tar strategy for Capistrano 3 to deploy tarball.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-scm-tar'

Usage

Set tar as scm option in your config/deploy.rb:

set :scm, :tar

Build a release package of your project and upload it to the server you run capistrano:

tar czf /tmp/v1.0.0.tar.gz *
scp /tmp/v1.0.0.tar.gz example.com:/tmp/v1.0.0.tar.gz

And then, deploy it:

cap deploy package=/tmp/v1.0.0.tar.gz

The basename of tarball is used for the revision number of capistrano setting by set_current_revision.

License

The MIT License (MIT)