Mongrel Spinner and Restart tasks for Capistrano (See related posts)

desc <<-DESC
Spinner is run by the default cold_deploy task. Instead of using script/spinner, we're just gonna rely on Mongrel to keep itself up.
DESC
task :spinner, :roles => :app do
  application_port = xxxx #get this from your friendly sysadmin
  run "mongrel_rails start -e production -p #{application_port} -d -c #{current_path}"
end

desc "Restart the web server"
task :restart, :roles => :app do
  begin
    run "cd #{current_path} && mongrel_rails restart"
  rescue RuntimeError => e
    puts e
    puts "Probably not a big deal, so I'll just keep trucking..."
  end
end